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.
Belfast Woman Feeds Daughter Into Fairground Machine To Steal Cash: Video
TO Belfast, where Roisin1191 has filmed a woman seemingly helping her child into a Prize Pick Up machine, where cash is attached to soft toys and gadgets. Either the child is looking to steal the money or else the vending business has moved into kids, and this is the kind of thing soon to appear on every street corner in Thailand and in the locker room at paedo lovin’ Penn State University…
Posted: 12th, November 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Maria Topp Goes Down For Bitting Into Lover’s Testicles
MARIA Topp, 44, of Gateshead, is hereby sentenced at Newcastle Crown Court to 12 months choky (fnar), suspended for 18 months, for the crime of biting hard into the scrotum of one Martin Douglas, 45. She is to perform 150 hours of community service and is not allowed to contact Mr Douglas, who required an impressive 19 stiched to his gashed testicles.
Recorder Robin Mairs describes the couple’s realtiaonship as “turbulent“.
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Posted: 11th, November 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Straight Welsh Rugby Player Wakes Up Gay: Chris Birch Is A Hairdresser
WELSH rugby player Chris Birch, 26, broke his neck when he attempted a back flip. His injury triggered a stroke. When he awoke he felt changed. He work feeling gay.
As he says:
“I was gay when I woke up and I still am. It sounds strange but when I came round I immediately felt different. I wasn’t interested in women any more. I had never been attracted to a man before – I’d never even had any gay friends. But I didn’t care about who I was before, I had to be true to my feelings.”
He’d just been another rugged man who enjoyed playing rugby.
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Posted: 10th, November 2011 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comments (2)
Did Anatoly Moskvin Have Sex WIth The Corpses He Met In His Coffin? Photos
TIME for an update on the life of Anatoly Moskvin, the Russian who took 29 dead girls home to meet his mama. Police found the corpses dressed up in his family home.
The BBC reports:
In a 2007 interview with the newspaper Nizhegorodsky Rabochy, Mr Moskvin said he had begun wandering through cemeteries when still a schoolboy. He claimed to have inspected 752 cemeteries across the region from 2005 to 2007, often walking up to 30km (20 miles) a day.
He said he had drunk from puddles, spent nights in haystacks or at abandoned farms and had once even slept in a coffin readied for a funeral.
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Posted: 9th, November 2011 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment (1)
Morrison’s Gateshead Health And Safety Teacher Falls Off Ladder (Video)
HEALTH and safety instructor, Paul Kavanagh was teaching workers the correct way to use a the new ladder safety system when he fell off. Kavanagh, from Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, is employed by Morrison Facility Services. Its website states:
Your health and safety, and that of our customers, come before anything else. As a business, we won’t be happy until we have zero accidents or incidents. Each of our contracts is fully risk-assessed to anticipate the issues we might face such as asbestos, working at height or manual handling. Our staff can expect to be trained on the health and safety skills and awareness you need.
The expert ignored his own rules and climbed without a hard hat. He then let go of the ladder with his hands and fell into a neighbouring garden.
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Posted: 8th, November 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Big Things Expected For Drama School Rabbits
THE Petri Dish of talent has been run dry by in-breeding. Time for fresh blood. Bring on the singing rabbits….
Posted: 8th, November 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Huntington Woman’s Funeral Stopped Because Hole Too Small For Coffin
MAUREEN Shelton is being buried in Huntington. She was 62. She was larger than the hole that’s been dug for her coffin.
Mrs Shelton’s family are unhappy. They complain to the Huntingdon branch of Anglia Co-operative Funerals and Trading Standards
Mrs Shelton’s daughter, Katrina Shelton, 37, claims in the Hunts Post that things did not go according to plan:
Posted: 7th, November 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Couple Steal Police Car For Sex: Green Honda Civic Arouses Criminal Passions
ALEXANDER Pratt and 53-year-old Clara Pearson, have been taken to Palm Beach County Jail. Mr PRatt admits to stealing a Palm Beach County Sheriff’s vehicle to have sex in it with Ms Pearson.
Posted: 7th, November 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Judge Rules Dad Is Too Old To Dance: Men Of The World Rejoice
RICHARD Fuller, 45, has been told that he is too old to dance.
As Townsville, Australia, Magistrate Ross Mack tells Fuller:
“You are too old to dance Mr Fuller. Patrons have come to see the band, not some guy next to them.”
Men of a certain vintage… Rejoice! When asked to dance at the Bar Mitzvah or wedding you can now say, “I would, but I fear that current legislation forbids it.”
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Posted: 5th, November 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Thief Steals Cursed Head From Kent Church
IT is a fact that the 300-year-old carved man’s head stolen from St Peter and St Paul’s Church, Newchurch, Kent, is cursed.
Churchwarden Tony Day says:
“I’d like to say to the person who has taken the head now, should you find your luck disappearing we’d happily accept it back to its rightful home.”
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Posted: 5th, November 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Dentist Placed Genitals In Patient’s Mouth During Treatment
TO China’s Qinpu Zhongshan Hospital, in Shanghai’s Qingpu District, where the male dentist has told his femal patient to close her eyes and open the mouth. He then places his gentials on her tongue.
At which point the treatment might have moved swiftly to stage 2 as she chomps down, causing the dentist to offer a throaty “Ahhhhhh!!!!!” – the teeth are working well – or else a disappointed “Ohhhhh!!!!” – the teeth have become loose and more glue is required.
Instead she just wails and tells the authorities.
A local official named…Wang (of course he is) says an investigation has been launched into the 28 years old dentist, who has worked at the hospital for two years. Wang says the oral master “has been an excellent dentist who never showed any signs of behaving like this“.
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Posted: 5th, November 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Pregnant Bride Discovers Lover Is Her Brother
HAVING dated for five years, the couple known by the aliases Jabu Ngomane and Thulisile Mhlabane, prepared for the birth of their first child. Only, when the South African lovers entered into lobola negotiations, they found that they had been engaing in Motherwell Discussions… Jabu and Thulisile are brother and sister.
Dad Alfred Ngomane left their mum in 1983. His son was 2 years old and his daughter aged just 8 months. He raised Jabur in Madras village in Bushbuckridge. The mother raised the girl in Pienaar, outside Nelspruit. Neither child was told they had a sibling.
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Posted: 5th, November 2011 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment
Northamptonshire Man Banned From Possessing Excrement
STEVEN Chennel, a 45-year-old from Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, is now banned from playground in England or Wales, many of town’s pubs and nursing homes, being in possession of any excrement on the outside of his body,(human or animal) in a public place” and from “throwing or smearing any object, including food at any property not belonging to himself”.
Chennel is the holder of a criminal antisocial behaviour order, the fabled CRASBO.
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Posted: 4th, November 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comments (5)
Dad Pukes On Daughter’s Face On Roller Coaster: Video
ROLLER COASTERS are hell. They really are. They’re designed to make you feel nauseous. Anyone who says otherwise is a liar. They’re not even terrifying.
Going down a hill in the dark on a skateboard, drunk, while your mates throw whatever they can lift from a nearby building site at you. That’s terrifying.
No, roller coasters provide thrills to the boring. Or children. There’s no point berating children. They can’t get drunk yet so they need to get their little kicks however they can.
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Posted: 3rd, November 2011 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment
Child Films Ghosts Having Sex In Her Lounge – Demi Moore Impressed: Video
DIANNE Carlisle’s 4-year-old daughter Kimora has filmed ghosts having sex in her Euclid, Ohio, home.
Says she:
“It look like, like ghosts having sex in my living room! They are having sex, you can see the lady’s high heeled shoes! I never seen anything like this. I mean, ghosts still have feelings? [They’re] having sex?”
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Posted: 3rd, November 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Chanel Tapper Has World’s Longest Tongue: Photos
CHANEL Tapper has the world’s lognest tongue. It’s 9.75 cm long. Yeah – Chanel Tapper. Is that nominative determinism?
Posted: 2nd, November 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Washington Man Cuts Off Own Arm With Massive Homemade Outdoor Guillotine
TO Washington, where Bellingham police officers “still aren’t sure why a homeless man would decide to construct a homemade guillotine and then lop his own arm off with it. But they’ve released this photo of the medieval contraption all the same.”
The man, aged 32, arrived a media centre. Medics noted the missing arm and alerted police who found the limb lying at the base of a guillotine in the woods.
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Posted: 2nd, November 2011 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comments (2)
Medics Find Human Face In Patient’s Testicle
YOU have a face like s tumour on a testicle. Not our opinions, but a medical one.
Urology, the International Society of Urology’s official journal, features the work of G. Gregory Roberts and Naji J. Touma, from Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada, who had reason to study the testicle of a 45-year-old patient.
“The residents and staff alike were amazed to see the outline of a man’s face staring up out of the image, his mouth agape as if the face seen on the ultrasound scan itself was also experiencing severe epididymo-orchitis. A brief debate ensued on whether the image could have been a sign from a deity (perhaps ‘Min,’ the Egyptian god of male virility); however, the consensus deemed it a mere coincidental occurrence rather than a divine proclamation.”
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Posted: 2nd, November 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Severn Trent Bemoan Bromsgrove’s Constipation Blues
TO Bromsgrove, where the local diet is playing merry hell with the plumbing.
Severn Trent says it has founds strange objects in the pipes: dozens of hard-boiled eggs, underwear, condoms, nappies, razor blades, mobile phones and gold balls.”
A spokesperson for Severn Trent says:
“Any one of them could get snagged in the sewer on their way to the treatment works, building up a blockage and causing problems for you and your neighbours.”
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Posted: 1st, November 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Bryon Widner Erases His Face Tattoos: Reformed Nazi Changes His Looks (Photos)
BRYON Widner is the reformed racist skinhead turned police informer who underwent 25 operations to remove tattoos that marked him out as a violent white supremacist. An anonymous donor forked out the £21,000 fee to have the tattoos removed after black anti-racist campaigner Daryle Lamont Jenkins publicised the case. The surgery was performed with a laser wilded by Dr Bruce Shack, chairman of the Department of Plastic Surgery at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville. Incidentally, one of Anorak’s writers has had tattoos removed. He says it “can hurt like f***”. The photos are fascinating:
Posted: 1st, November 2011 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comments (2)
Dinner Lady Pole Dancers For Hungry Students
AT the local school in Östhammar, north of Uppsal in eastern Sweden, the dinner ladies are revolting. (And so are their dinners.)
Says school principal Per Rostgaard Evald:
“One of the canteen ladies removed her apron, unzipped her trousers, let down her hair and started moving up and down against a pole like a pole dancer.”
This was her reaction to students’ complaints of substandard food. Things came to a head when students refused to eat the inedible food. The dinner ladies set about heating up some pre-made pancakes. Only, when the panckaes were served they were still frozen in the middle.
And, as the students complained, one dinner lady removed her apron, unzipped her trousers and worked the pole.
Says Evald:
“The school’s social welfare officer tried to tell her this is not acceptable behaviour, but she just kept on dancing,”
And the students surely kept on complaining and complaining and complaining and…
Posted: 1st, November 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Panicky Police Shoot At Escaped Cow (Video)
WHEN a cow escaped from a truck on its way to the slaughterhouse, brave Canadian police in Gatineau police screamed “FREEZER!”, drew their guns and shots at it. They did not adopt it, make it their precinct’s mascot nor re-home it in a luscious field. They repeatdly fired at it. The action was captured on video.
Const. Pierre Lanthier of the Gatineau police tells media:
“The cops at one point have to decide if it’s threatening for the population, is it too dangerous? They decided at one point they had no choice but to shoot the animal.”
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Posted: 1st, November 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Have You Met Jaws Cat? Video
OFTEN, we write lovely, long introductions for videos that we share with you by way of setting a certain tone before you leap in and watch.
However, there comes a time when there are no adequate words. This is one of those occasions.
Basically, what we have here, is a cat, the Jaws theme tune and one of the most peculiar noises you’re likely to hear all week.
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Posted: 31st, October 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Corgis In Halloween Costumes: Photos By Royal Appointment
WHY does the Queen like corgis? The question should be: why doesn’t everyone? Dress up a corgi this Halloween:
Posted: 31st, October 2011 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment (1)
Bella The Dog Is Dead: Tara The Elephant Mourns Her Best Pal (Photos)
SAD news from the elephant sanctuary for abandoned, runaway, inspiring and wayward elephants in Hohenwald, Tennessee: Tarra’s friend Bella has died.
On Tarra’s profile, we learn:
• Reason for coming to the Sanctuary: inspiration and founding member
She has talent:
Born in Burma, Asia, Tarra’s artistic talent began to emerge almost immediately upon her introduction to America and life in captivity. Often, Tarra was observed holding a stick in her trunk, drawing abstract images in the dirt. Using a stone grasped firmly in the end of her trunk, she passed the solitary night time hours by etching drawings on the concrete floor of her barn.
CEO Robert Atkinson, a former Head of Wildlife for the United Kingdom’s Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, has news:
My dear friends,
I write to you with very sad news. Tarra’s little dog Bella has died. We found her body on Wednesday and have been dealing with the aftermath ever since, trying to work out what happened while we look after Tarra and each other.
We noticed Bella was not with Tarra at breakfast on Tuesday and later that morning she still had not appeared. Tarra and Bella have always spent short periods apart as one goes off exploring briefly on their own, but this longer absence worried us deeply and a search of the property was started which continued into the next day. The search ended tragically when Bella’s body was found close to the Asia barn that had long been home to Tarra, her five sisters and Bella. During the time of the search our usually social Tarra chose to remain alone, watched over by concerned Caregivers.
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Posted: 31st, October 2011 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comments (9)
