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.
Rat rapes woman and steals her money
ELIZABETH Ndodayemzini from Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, says she awoke to find a rat having sex with her.
“I try to push whoever will be having sex with me and try to grab him and all I see is a rat on top of the bed…It does not run away like ordinary rats, just looks at me and the next thing it would go under the pillow shivering in a strange manner.”
The raping rat then behaved strangely? Not long after, the rat stole money form her bank account. It is – as it mut be – a love rat.
“I have tried to kill it a number of times. I even asked some guys I share a flat with if the same things happened to them, but they said they have not had an encounter with a rat. My money from the house just disappears and at times even from my bank account. I wonder what’s really happening to me and I need someone to help me.”
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Posted: 22nd, January 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Patricia Elyse Deshong and Quentin Adam Deshong tried to blow up car with tampons
TO Metal Township, Pennsylvania, where Patricia Elyse Deshong, 25, and Quentin Adam Deshong, 22, are accused of trying to blow up a green Ford Fusion with tampons on January 7th, 2011.
Police at the scene found that the engine has been damaged, there were broken windows and blood in the seats. Tampons had been pushed into the oil cap and the gas tank. Investigators found ashes by the tampons. Had the pair been using the tampons to blow up the car, lighting the tapers and standing well forward?
A tin lid is soon placed on the story:
While police were investigating, the owner of the car, Falon Leigh Clark, Hustontown, arrived in a pickup truck with Gary Scott Boggs. According to the affidavit, Boggs fled the scene and was subsequently arrested for DUI.
Posted: 21st, January 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Dante Autullo shoots nail into head and doesn’t notice (x-ray photos)
DANTE Autullo did not realise his nail gun had fired a 7.62cm nail into his head.
Says Dante Autullo, of Chicago:
“When they brought in the picture, I said to the doctor ‘Is this a joke? Did you get that out of the doctors joke file?’ The doctor said ‘No man, that’s in your head.'”
Autullo has undergone surgery at Advocate Christ medical centre in Oak Lawn. On the way to another hospital, he had the presence of mind to post a picture of the X-ray on Facebook.
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Posted: 21st, January 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Islington council erects tree sign warning against erecting tree sings
THE sign on the tree at Islington Council-policed Highbury Fields, north London, states:
“Please do not attach or affix any structures or objects to the park furniture and trees at Highbury Fields including the benches and lamp posts.”
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Posted: 21st, January 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Why did man shoot change machine at Busy Bubbles laundromat? (video)
TO Winter Haven, Florida, where police are looking for man who walked into the Busy Bubbles laundromat on Cypress Gardens Road and shot the change machine.
WTSP reprots that the man shot the machine “in an effort to steal money from it”.
My experience with change machines offers another theory: he just wanted his money back.
After briefly inspecting the machine, he proceeds to fire several more rounds into it, before leaving as quickly as he came in. He was not able to get any money from the machine.
The suspect is described as a black male, approximately 5’11” tall, 185 lbs., wearing a grey hoodie and dark baggy pants.
Posted: 21st, January 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Mug Shot: Russell Hofstad ate cat he’d skinned with butter knife
RUSSELL Hofstad is out Mug Shot of the Day. Hofstad has been arrested in Phoenix for skinning and gutting a cat with a butter knife, and then sporting the feline’s tail as a necklace. Mr Hofstad either hates cats or loves them too much.
Police records state that Hofstad removed the cat’s organs and plced them on ice. The skeleton he planned to use as a party decoration.
Hofstad was fond in a business premises he has broken into.
When police showed up, they found Hofstad inside. Officers said he had paint on his face, had bloodshot eyes, and appeared to be under the influence of alcohol or drugs. According to records, there was writing on several walls, all of the fire extinguishers had been used, and a fire alarm panel had been broken. While searching the business, officers found the dead cat in the middle of the building. There were screw drivers and clippers next to the cat’s body.
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Posted: 21st, January 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Man took dead mother on Chorley bus ride
A MAN, 52, has taken his 88-year-old mum on a bus trip in Chorley – after she’d died.
The woman died on the way home from a day out in Lancaster. The son did not call the emergency services. He waited with his wheelchair bound mother at Preston Bus Station for the bus to Chorley. They got on the Stagecoach bus and rode to Chorley.
In Chorley, a security guard spotted the pair.
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Posted: 19th, January 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Man gets British passport tattooed on his back
WHY did Richard Ashton get his UK passport tattooed on his back?
So that everyone can laugh at him behind it?
Image: taken from the internet. If you own the copyright, please let us know and we can take it down…
Posted: 19th, January 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Winkelhimer is the painting squirrel sensation (video)
SHYLA Mouton introduces Winkelhimer, the painting squirrel. Says Mouton, an artist known as ‘Ugly Shyla’:
“I was watching her from the kitchen window crawl down the tree. Then I saw a cat attack her. I rushed out there to help her. One of her front legs was messed up pretty bad. I put her in a little box on the porch to make her comfortable because I didn’t think she would make it through the night.”
Winkelhimer lived. And now the squirrel is “painting abstract works of art that have been auctioned off“.
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Posted: 19th, January 2012 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment
Two-headed pig born in China (photos)
FARMER Deng Xiaochun, who toils in east China’s Jiangzi Province, has a piglet with two noses, two mouths but only one ear and one eye on each of its two heads.
London bankers describe themselves as “impressed”…
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Posted: 18th, January 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Vampire witch stalks patients in Zimbabwe hospital
TO Zimbabwe, where a nurse at the local hospital in Gweru has fainted at the sight of a vampire witch sucking blood from a patient. Hospital staff are now afraid to work nights.“When she [ the now hospitalised nurse] came across the witch, the drip had been removed from the patient. The witch was apparently busy sucking blood from the patient and the on-duty nurse immediately raised an alarm upon witnessing the shocking incident. She (the nurse) suddenly collapsed and fainted. She is still weak and is being attended to by a doctor. However, she is now able to narrate what really transpired on the fateful day.”
Posted: 16th, January 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Dad arrested for poisoning mum’s Rice Krispies with Goof Off
FERNANDO Porras, 43, is accused ot trying to poison his wife by lacing her Rice Krispies with Goof Off, an all-purpose cleaning fluid at their home in Azna, California. Mrs Poras, 51, is very ill, having eaten the concoction. Police were alerted when the woman’s 17-year-old daughter Fernanda “smelt the chemical in her mother’s cereal dish“.
Says Fernanda
“She goes ‘something’s in it, something’s in it. So I went and picked it up and when I saw what was in the cup, I could smell it and I was like ‘oh my gosh, this is a chemical.’”
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Posted: 16th, January 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Mug shot of the day: Leon Ward ‘hid’ a 10-inch barrel revolver up his anus
MUG Shot of the day features the face of Michael Leon Ward, 22, who after being arrested for speeding and possession of marijuana was found to have a 10-inch .38 barrel revolver secreted up his anus.
Leon Ward resisted arrest. He was brought to heel with the aid of a stun gun.
Back at the station, Georgia police discovered that Ward was on the run from a murder warrant out of Atlanta. Police at Onslow County jail note that Ward asked for help. He claimed to have found a gun in his cell. Bug there had bene no gun in the cell before Ward was locked up. Moreover, he had been “strip searched prior to being booked into a cell block”.
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Posted: 15th, January 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Mug Shot of the day – Andrei Bibbs is surprised
MUG Shot of the day features the mush of Andrei Bibbs, 53, of Blue Island, who seems surprised to have been arrested by Illinois State Police for driving under the influence on Saturday in Will County. Of course, what you can’t see is that the booking officer behind the camera has just pulled a live chicken from an orifice…
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Posted: 14th, January 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
New Zealand’s Tina Beznec auctions her bottom for a tattoo of your choosing
TINA Beznec says you can have your face, your mother-in-law’s face, name, brand or logo tattooed on her bottom. New Zealander Beznec is auctioning her backside on Trade Me auction under the vow “YOUR tattoo on my Bum!!”.“You might think I am crazy for doing this! But yes, the winner of the auction gets ANYTHING they like tattooed on my bum!” The 9 x 9 centimetre spot on either cheek could be used for a marriage proposal, business promotion or just “awesomeness”.
Posted: 13th, January 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Lewis woman moves horse into her living room
TO Lewis, outer Scotland, where Stephanie Noble, 65, has moved a three-year-old horse named Grey Lady Too into her semi-detached home.
Says Stephanie Noble in the Daily Record:
“It will look strange to most people but I really had no choice. I’m living in one small bedroom upstairs. Another bedroom is full of horse equipment, another is full of horse meal and the living room is full of horse. Even the bath is full of horse mats.”
Adding:
“I’ve heard that some call me a mad old woman but I don’t give a stuff. I know that all I’m doing is defending a principle.”
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Posted: 12th, January 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Massive Dutch clog stolen
ANYONE being offered a massive Dutch clog on the black market or at a car boot sale should contact the police. It may be the the four metres long, two metres high, two tonnes wooden shoe stolen from its site in Enter, Holland.
Says a Rosita de Vries:
“We don’t know who stole it, but it’s disappeared… They (the thieves) would have had a truck to fly off with this shoe.”
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Posted: 12th, January 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Hazel Jones is the woman with two vaginas
HAZEL Jones, 27, has two vaginas. You might have caught Hazel on This Morning talking about her uterus didelphys with understanding Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield.
Doctor Dawn Harper told Holly and Phil:
“The two tubes have made two separate uteruses and two vaginas and two cervixes. And although it’s relatively common to have a septum within the uterus, to actually have two separate uteruses is much rarer – one in a million.”
Yes, readers. Out there right now are tens if not hundreds of women with two vaginas. Cocaine dealers looking for mules, porn directors and men who want their girlfreind to be intact on her wedding day (use door B) must be salivating.
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Posted: 11th, January 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Janet Knowles attacked man because Judge Judy was on TV
WHEN police asked Janet Knowles, 62, of Jupiter, Florida, why she hit a 65-year-old man on the head with a hammer, she sais it was because Judge Judy was on television.
Knowles is being held in the Palm Beach County Jail. Judge Judy is unlikely to hear her case, leaving her supposed desperate fan even more upset.
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Posted: 11th, January 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Made Snana: why poor Indians roll in the rich man’s food leftovers
TO India’s Karntaka state, where Hindus are performing ‘made snana’, the act where low caste Hindus roll in the remains of food eaten by high-caste Brahmins in the belief that it will cure skin conditions.The ritual is held in Subrahmanya and Vasuki temples in the region on Subrahmanya Shashti day.
Not everyone thinks it’s all that pleasant or in keeping with go-ahead India.
Panditaradhya Shivacharya Swami, told a meeting of “holy men” in Bangalore:
“If it can cure diseases effectively, the state government should close down all the medical colleges and hospitals. This evil is not less than the tradition of Sati [the banned practice of burning widows on the funeral pyres of their husbands] and child marriage and the government must act tough.”
Campaigner Veerabhadra Channamalla Swami of Nidumamidi Mahasamsthana Mutt says:
“This is to protect human dignity. [A ban] is to oppose obnoxious values and to bring about a progressive change.”
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Posted: 10th, January 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Durham police release photo of robber’s bum crack
DO you recognises this man, who was dressed in a black balaclava and dark clothing when armed with a knife he demanded cash from the cashier ar the Total Garage on St Cuthbert’s Way in Newton Aycliffe, County Durham?
Police have released this image of the robber.
Says Detective inspector Caroline Dawson:
“Someone out there may have information that would assist in identifying the person who committed this crime and we would encourage them to come forward. We hope that by releasing images of the items of clothing worn during the robbery they may help us identify the man involved.”
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Posted: 9th, January 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Yarn bombing Clitheroe Castle in photos
YARN bombers are planning to cover Clitheroe Castle in knitting. The Lancashire Telegraph reports:
The global phenomenon yarn bombing is a form of graffiti that covers objects in public places with colourful knitted or crocheted designs instead of using paint or chalk.
What yarn bombing lacks in spontaneity and speed it makes up in texture and a cosy feeling that everything is going to be ok (weather permitting):
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Posted: 7th, January 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Beezow Doo-Doo Zopittybop-Bop-Bop is our Mug Shot of the Day
MUG Shot of the Day features the face of Beezow Doo-Doo Zopittybop-Bop-Bop. The thrice double-barrelled Beezow Doo-Doo Zopittybop-Bop-Bop was arrested Reynolds Park on Madison’s Near East Side on Thursday.
Police said they recognised Mr Zopittybop-Bop-Bop, 30, of Madison, from previous meeting. He has a history of carrying concealed weapon and possessing drugs paraphernalia.Beezow Doo-Doo Zopittybop-Bop-Bop was on parole and banned from carrying a weapon of any type. A search of his person revealed a blade and some marijuana and drug paraphernalia.
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Posted: 7th, January 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
City of London Bank robber handed cashier gun
POLICE are hunting the man who robbed the Halifax bank in Cheapside in the City of London and in the process handed the cashier his gun.
The would-be robber, disguised in sunglasses and a flat cap, demanded £700,000 in cash. He then handed the cashier a bag – containing his gun – before realising his error and making off on a stolen bank worker’s bike.
The bank has posted a £25,000 reward.
Say the police:
“This man is not the sharpest tool in the box. The guess is that he is very inexperienced and panicked when he approached the cashier, handing over his gun instead of a bag by mistake.”
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Posted: 6th, January 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Evangelina Paredes sues Cop Chris Collins for asking her on a date
EVANGELINA Paredes says Chicago policeman Chris Collins gave her speeding ticket ($132) and then tracked her down to ask her on a date. In the films, this would be a romantic moment. In real life America it is just a chance to get cash. Evangelina Paredes is suing Chris Collins for violating her privacy.
She says that after Collins issued her with a ticket on October 22, he searched for her address in the motor-vehicle database. He then found her car parked outside her home and left a note on the windshield.
Wrote 27-year-old Chris Collins:
“It’s Chris … that ugly bald Stickney cop who gave you that ticket. … I know this may seem crazy and you’re probably right, but truth is I have not stopped thinking about you since. I don’t expect a girl as attractive as you to … even go for a guy like me, but I’m taking a shot anyways.”
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Posted: 5th, January 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
