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.
Three-Eyed Fish Caught In Nuclear Lake: Photo
GOOD news for fans of fish eyes: one with three eyes has been caught in Argentin. It was swimming in a lake wherein the nearby nuclear facility pipes its hot water.
Says fisherman Jilian Zmutt:
“We were fishing and we got the surprise of getting this rare specimen. As it was dark at that time we did not notice, but then you looked at him with a flashlight and saw that he had a third eye.”
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Posted: 29th, October 2011 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment
Record Breaking Woman Cures Alcoholism With 2053 Clowns
KNOCK. Knock. Knock. Trick or treat? The door to Orty Kastaun’s home opens. The little horrors peer in. Orty smiles. “You like the clowns? They like you…”
You see, 61-year-old German Orty holds the Guinness World Record for owning the world’s largest collection of clowns – 2,053 clown-related items, since you’re asking.
Don’t panic, kids. Orty is a recovering alcoholic and the clowns are part of her therapy. Clowns know best. Clowns know everything? They know what you are thinking…
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Posted: 29th, October 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Ipswich Man Gets Trapped In McDonald’s Straw Dispenser
TO Ipswich, where a man has become trapped in the straw dispenser at the McDonalds eatery in Hening Avenue, on the Ravenswood development. A fire crew attends.
The man was said to be embarrassed but unhurt.
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Posted: 28th, October 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Woman Knifes Lover In Row Over Monopoly Game
MUG Shot of The Day features the sorry face of New Mexico’s Laura Chavez, 60. She is accused of stabbing her boyfriend Clyde “Butch” Smith, 48, with a kitchen knife having already hit him over the head with a glass bottle. She, reportedly, thought he was cheating at Monopoly.
Chavez’s 10-year-old grandson, who had been playing Monopoly with the two adults, says granny got into a row because she thought he “was cheating at Monopoly”. He did not see the fight, having already called it quits and gone to bed.
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Posted: 28th, October 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comments (5)
Have Your Heart Warmed By Biker Saving Drowning Calf (Video)
WHEN you think of bikers, do you think of oil-stained hoodlums with long-forked hogs, terrorising small towns with their rowdy drinking, pillaging and fistfights?
Of course, those days of biker gangs are long gone and, for the most part, the only people with Harley Davidson motorcycles are comfortable men in the Autumn of their lives, trying to give one last hand gesture to society before their hand seizes up forever.
Mostly, bikers wouldn’t touch a bike like that and prefer something a little more nimble and aggressive, which belies their often kindly nature.
Concerning the latter, here’s a video that will warm you little cockles!
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Posted: 27th, October 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
David Calvo Challenges Ed Miliband’s Rubik’s Cube Majesty
DAVID Calvo will now demonstrate why he and not Ed Miliband should lead the Labour Party. As you know, Ed got in because while his peers were out chasing girls, boys and dogs with sticks, Ed was solving his Rubik’s Cube safe in the knowledge that this and this alone would make him a master of the universe. But then came David Calvo. Dave (can we call him that?) can solve a Rubik’s cube while juggling two others.
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Posted: 27th, October 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Police Find Man Trapped In Hollow Tree Trunk (Photos)
TO Laguna Hills, California, where a man is stuck inside the hollow trunk of a tree. The hole leads about five feet underground. When police arrive, all they can see are the man’s head and arms.
The fire brigade is called. It takes 90 minutes to cut the man free.
Says Battalion Chief Kris Concepcion of the Orange County Fire Authority. “Why he’s in a tree, I have no idea.”
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Posted: 27th, October 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Police Rescue Car Thief Trapped Inside Corvette When Battery Goes Flat
“IT was so bizarre,” says RCMP Sgt. Jason Keays.
Indeed, it was. We journey back in time to just past 3p.m. on Oct. 23.
A man is trying to steal a Corvette from Francois Crescent, Prince George, Canada.
The car’s owner has left the vehicle unlocked while he puts the battery charger he has used to charge the car back in the garage. He has left the car running. The thief jumps in. He locks the doors locks and shuts the windows. He tries to drive off.
The car stalls.
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Posted: 26th, October 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
African Prostitute Turns Into Donkey During Sex
HARD luck on Sunday Moyo, 28, from Mandava township in Zvishavane, Zimbabwe, charged with bestiality when the prostitute he hired turned into a donkey.
Zvishavane magistrate Mildred Matuvi heard how Moyo was spotted by police shagging a donkey tied to a tree.
The accused tells the court:
“Your worship, I only came to know that I was being intimate with a donkey when I got arrested. I had hired a prostitute and paid US$20 for the service at Down Town night club and I don’t know how she then became a donkey.”
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Posted: 26th, October 2011 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comments (3)
Want To Avoid A Ticket? Saw A Parking Meter In Half (Video)
TRAFFIC tickets are perhaps the most irritating crimes to break. They’re so easily avoidable, which makes them all the more galling when they occur.
Worse still, is when some jobsworth gives you a hard time, causing more disruption than the event that originally took place.
Of course, people get very stressed about things like this and start acting strangely… such as the guy who sawed a parking meter in two!
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Posted: 25th, October 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
How To Face The Haka: With Pepper Spray
THIS is how you face down the haka. Forget the eyeballing and Morris Dance, police in Utah just reach for the pepper spray.A group of Polynesian football fans were in Roosevelt, 200km east of Salt Lake City. They wanted to perform a haka. But police said they were preventing players from leaving the pitch.
Eyewitness Zack Aguiniga tells us:
“As we’re there watching, we could hear the cops say, ‘make a hole’. But they were in the middle of their dance, and if anyone knows the haka dance, they’re loud and talking in unison.”
Posted: 25th, October 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
The Best And Worst Halloween Light Show
HAPPY Halloween. Flick the switch and it’s happy Christmas. Can you go the whole year with light shows on your house? Harry Easter… Happy Summer Solstice… Happy Earth Hour…
YouTube user KJ92508 has created this light show in Riverside, California.
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Posted: 24th, October 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Efit Of The Day: The Hampshire Highlighter Haired Mugger
EFIT of The Day: Police in Basingstoke, Hampshire are looking for a man with hair that might have been drawn on with a highlighter pen. Jokes aside, he’s a sod, allegedly:
At around 4.30pm on Friday afternoon, a 73-year-old man was at the Odiham Wharf when he offered a lift to a man who claimed to have sprained his ankle. The man directed the motorist to a country lane where he was assaulted. He then dragged the victim from the car, and kicked him. The assailant punched him and drove off in the injured man’s vehicle. The 73-year-old driver, who is from the Aldershot area, sustained severe bruising and was taken to hospital. He was retained overnight for observation and treatment and is now recovering. SUSPECT: White male. Race unknown but could be either: Polish, Eastern European or even Scandinavian. Suspect was 30-35 years, tall (possibly 6ft ish), broad shouldered, natural looking yellow blonde straight short tidy hair parted on his left and combed to the side (a long crewcut combed sideways) which looked very old fashioned. The face was oval shaped and the skin was fair, in keeping with blonde hair.
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Posted: 24th, October 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Brighton Zombie Walk 2011 Photos: Gaddafi Lives!
TO the Brighton Zombie Walk 2011 – and some shock to see that Gaddafi lives!
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Posted: 23rd, October 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Kirkless Council Uses Headstones To Build Walls
TO Netherton where old headstones are being used to build walls. The wall on Bourn View Road contains such inscriptions as “The beloved …who died …”. Kirklees Council, which constructed the wall, has apologised and removed the offending slabs.“I just couldn’t believe it. This is a clear disregard for other people’s feelings. It is a well-used area with a bus stop nearby. There are also a lot of older people who live near there and will pass the wall. A lot of people have seen it and complained, saying it is wrong. “Surely there must be a family missing a headstone somewhere and here it is in a wall in Netherton. It is terrible.”
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Posted: 23rd, October 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Hammersmith Free School Isolates Boy For Having Too Short Hair
MORE wrong haircut news now as we learn that Kai Frizzle, 11, has been sent home from West London Free School in Hammersmith for having hair 3mm too short. One day after his removal he was taught in isolation.
This follows news that Warrington lad Regan Smith’s hair was too long in the middle and not long enough at the sides. He too was isolated in school.
Kai’s mother Tania Scott put her boy’s hair in perspective:
“His haircut is the same as Barack Obama’s and Lewis Hamilton’s. He has had the same style since he was five. I am so upset… I am thinking of taking him out of the school.”
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Posted: 23rd, October 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Wesley Warren Jr’s Testicles Weigh 45kg
WESLEY Warren Jr’s testicles weigh 45kg. If he can raise $US1 million he can have a scrotectomy.
Wesley Warren Jr suffers from scrotal elephantiasis.
The 47-year-old tells the Las Vegas Review-Journal:
“It’s not easy to get around. It makes me stay in most of the time. I want to have real friends and a relationship with a woman. But I’m not suicidal. I’m too strong for that.”
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Posted: 21st, October 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Gordon And Norma Yeager Die Together After 72 Years Of Marriage
TIME for a story of love now, readers, as we journey to Iowa where Gordon, 94, and Norma Yeager, 90, have died holding hands. They had been married for 72 years.
The couple got married on May 26, 1939.
They died when Gordon pulled in front of an oncoming car. (Yep, still driving at 94.)
Their son Dennis Yeager explains:
“They brought them in the same room in intensive care and put them together – and they were holding hands in ICU. They were not really responsive… It was really strange, they were holding hands, and dad stopped breathing but I couldn’t figure out what was going on because the heart monitor was still going. But we were like, he isn’t breathing. How does he still have a heart beat? The nurse checked and said that’s because they were holding hands and it’s going through them. Her heart was beating through him and picking it up.”
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Posted: 21st, October 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Sintayehu Tishale Is The Armless Carpenter
STEP aside Christy Brown, Ethiopia has Sintayehu Tishale, 42, who uses his trusty left foot to hammer in a nail while his right operates the saw.
Tishale lost the use of his arms after being born with polio. He says:
“When I was very young I used to like to work in a garden using my legs as hands. Later I began to fix small things like stools and practiced sharpening knives with my feet. I made sure to practice as much as I could because I knew I had to make me feet work like hands.”
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Posted: 21st, October 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Irishman Paul Moran Who Tried To Turn His Poo Into Gold Is Jailed
PAUL Moran, 30, tried to turn his faeces into pure gold by placing them on a heater – an electric one – at his flat in Derrin Park, Enniskillen. It was 7:14pm on July 24, 2010 – a balmy summer’s night.
At Enniskillen Magistrates Court, Moran admitted arson and endangering human life. He has been jailed for three months for causing around £3,000 worth of damage to his Housing Executive home.
Upon his release he will spend a further 12 months on licence.
His Honour Judge McFarland told him:
“Rather bizarrely you were attempting to make gold from human faeces and waste products. It was an interesting experiment to fulfil the alchemist’s dream, but wasn’t going to succeed.”
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Posted: 20th, October 2011 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comments (3)
Hitler’s Nazi Racoons Invade Bromsgrove
NAZI raccoons have invaded Bromsgove.
One of the masked fascists has been caught by a home owner near Dudley.
Before now, the racoons were contained on mainland Europe. Now at least one has crossed into Blighty.
Estimates are that there are a million of the beasts occupying land from Spain to Denmark. Hitler’s racoons are gowing in number and influence.
In 1934, Hermann Goering introduced them to Kassel, a city north of Frankfurt 1934. He wanted racoons to “enrich the Reich’s fauna“.
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Posted: 20th, October 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Chadderton Is The Upside Down Capital Of Lancashire
TO Chadderton, Greater Manchester, where the entry sign is upside down.
A spokesman for Oldham Council says: it was “a genuine error was made by staff“.
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Posted: 20th, October 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Stockport Thief Falls Off Escape Bike Into Victim’s Bush: Photos
IDIOT of The Day is the wannabe thief of Old Wool Lane, Cheadle Hulme, Stockport, who while escaping from a home fell off his bicycle. He was – as these photographs taken by the homeowner show – wearing a high-visibility vest.
The homeowner, a 40-year-old man, spotted the would-be thief peering through patio doors at his home. He dashed downstairs, by which time the felon had gained entry to the lounge, where he had tried to disconnect the X-Box.
The crook legs it. The man picks up his camera. The crook gets on his bike. He crosses the front garden, and what with grass being a perilous surface, fells off his bike into a bush.
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Posted: 19th, October 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Man Attacks Woman With Frozen Armadillo
DALLAS police have arrested a man who employed a frozen armadillo to attack a 57-year old Pleasant Grove woman. The man and woman had rowed over the price for the creature. She planned planned to eat. He then tossed the animal at her, hitting her in the leg and chest.Posted: 19th, October 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)
Police Demo Leads To Crowd Injuries (Video)
DO not worry, kids, the police experts in safety are here to save you.
Seven children were injured by flying debris as they watched a helicopter land during a police exercise in Jagodina, Serbia.
Look out for the eyes and ears of national security being oblivious to the mayhem they’ve caused:
Posted: 19th, October 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
