American Students Charles Gill And Ryan Knight Arrested For Throwing Showballs: Face 5 Years Jail
IN America, the people are so free that even the cops are free to issue “felony snowball throwing charges” against Virginia college students Charles Gill and Ryan Knight for throwing snowballs at a snowplough and an undercover police car. The 21-year-olds study at James Madison University were arrested and jailed. They face between one and five years in prison, and a maximum $2,500 fine. That’s freedom.
Posted: 9th, February 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Police Against Name Badges Form Facebook Protest Group With Real Names
IN Lancashire, the police are wearing name badges. Only, they don’t want to, so they’re protesting on Facebook - using their own names and photos:
POLICE in Bolton are to wear name badges on duty to improve “customer service”.
All of Greater Manchester Police’s 8,100 officers, along with 4,000 civilian staff, will be ordered to wear the tags, which will display their full name and rank.
Plain clothes detectives will not be exempt from wearing the badges but police working undercover, or officers wearing riot gear, will be allowed to take them off. The cost of issuing the badges to every officer and staff member has been put at £21,000 - This Is Lancashire, Feb, 9, 2009
Cops have launched an internet campaign against plans to force officers to wear name badges - so revealing their identities to those they lock up – but have signed up to the public protest using their names and pictures - MEN, FEb 9, 2009
Posted: 9th, February 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
The 2010 Venice Carnival In Pictures, Death And A Hanging
THE Venice Carnival 2010 featured a slaughtered bull, 12 dead pigs in the Piazza San Marco and local toff Bianca Brandolini being hung from a scaffold. This being Venice, there are also small cups of coffee so expensive bankers asks for discount and Americans wandering why this faux Venice has none of the razzamatazz and all-day buffet at the real deal in Vegas. Still, the masks are better than you see at Halloween or in the more surgical areas of Los Angeles:
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Posted: 8th, February 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Britain’s Got Talent Auditions At The Hammersmith Apollo London
THE Britain’s Got Talent Auditions at The Hammersmith Apollo London, with Ant (right) and Dec (left) eyebrow wrangler Amanda Holden, walking inflatable Piers Morgan and Simon Cowell. Earlier in the week, Anorak was in the queue to see the Big Brother 11 hopefuls perform the Hokey Cokey and be judged to see if they were talented or untalented enough to go on the show and be voted for by the great unwashed. Britain’s Got Talent is utterly different to Big Brother because it’s got Simon Cowell and a better timeslot on ITV…
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Posted: 8th, February 2010 | In: Celebrities, Strange But True | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Bus Driver Stops London Bus To Chant: Pat Sharp Bombs
ON the No.24 to Hampstead Heath, the driver has pulled up to pray on his dayglo safety vest. The Mail reports:
He took off his shoes, knelt down facing Mecca, and began to chant.
We’d been wondering what Pat Sharp had been up to. Passenger Gayle Griffiths complained to Transport for London. Says she:
“I have done the journey a million times before but I was in a hurry to get home to pick my little girl up from school. We had just picked up and let off people at a bus stop and moved off again when the driver stopped the bus very suddenly.
“He got out of his cab, leaving the engine running, and walked towards the middle exit door. He laid out a fluorescent jacket on the floor and I thought that somebody must have been sick and he was covering it up. I didn’t really think much of it. But then he took off his shoes and began praying. I was gobsmacked and quite bewildered.”
Posted: 8th, February 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Dwight David Honeycutt Gives Cameron And Brown Lessons In Winning Votes: NSFW Video
IT’S Dwight David Honeycutt, presenting his five-minute video to the Arkansas school board. He has “the biggest dreams and strongest hands in this goddamn state.” He sold his granddaughter’s ADT medicine. He’s got diabetes. He likes canoeing and dogs. He loves his country so much that if there was a bald eagle right there on his porch he’d **** it. “I’m Dwight David Honeycutt – I don’t want your respect – I just need your vote.” Davis Cameron and Gordon Brown, pay attention:
Posted: 8th, February 2010 | In: Terrible TV | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Saudi Arabia Rejects Pakistan Amabassador ‘Biggest Dick’
THE biggest dick in Saudi Arabia is not Akbar Zib, the Pakistani diplomat and nominative determinism victim.
He has had his application to be Pakistan’s ambassador to Saudi Arabia denied. It’s just that your name mans “Biggest Dick” in Arabia and the local claimants to the title aren’t having that.
Zib was previously rejected for work in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain.
Posted: 8th, February 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
US Soldier Waterboards His Daugther In English Class
JOSHUA Tabor tells police that6 he waterboarded his four-year-old daughter for failing to recite the Bible. Anorak think he should have worked her up to gargling while saying her A to Z.
Start with the letters in order, then do it one breath then - and only then – do it with a drenched cloth over your face.
Posted: 7th, February 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
John Terry Does Not Pull A Cockroach From His Ear: A Video
JOHN Terry knows it could be worse. You could have a live cockroach in your ear. No, not a slight on the venerable and charming Mr Max Clifford nor a slang terms for a novelty orifice sex move. This is a real cockroach. In a real ear. The doctor films his operation. The operation ends up on You Tube. The cockroach becomes a huge star and denies shagging John Terry:
Posted: 7th, February 2010 | In: Terrible TV | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Compo For Jogger Locked In Park’s Toilet On Christmas Eve
SOUTHWARK Council locked a jogger in a public toilet on Christmas Ever. He remained in the lavatory – no heating, save for hand dryer, bin liner clothes and hot water – for 17 hours. CCTV captured his movements.
The story goes that the man had been jogging in Dulwich Park. He nipped to the toilet. The attendant failed to check if there was anyone inside the building before locking the door.
The council will pay the man compensation.
Anorak is just wondering who goes jogging on Christmas Eve and then takes their lives in their hands in a public toilet? We’d say they want locking up – but that would seem unnecessary…
Posted: 6th, February 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Man Steals 5 Gallons Of Lotion In Trousers
CHAMIL Guadarrama needs lotion. Five gallons of it. Police in Springfield, Massachusetts, say 30-year-old Guadarrama was at a Bath and Body Works store.
Guadarrama was spotted placing eight-ounce glass bottles of lotion in his trousers. He reportedly tied string around his ankles to stop the bottles slipping out.
Security officers see Guadarrama. He runs. But can’t go all that fast. Soon arrested, Guadarrama can’t bend to get in the police car until more bottles are removed. His legs are described as “extremely chafed’”.
Posted: 6th, February 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Weatherman Mania: Jim Kosek’s Scare Story Masterclass
JIM Kosek from Accuweather.com delivers the scare story masterclass - parts global warming, parts death ice, parts demented man run amock with clipbaord. Baltimore dies tonight!
Posted: 6th, February 2010 | In: Terrible TV | Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Britney Spears Cross-Dresser In Court For Scaring Children
WHAT news of the Britney Spears cross-dresser, one Peter Trigger? Well, since you ask, Mr Trigger is in court charged with breaching the anti-social behaviour order that bars him from baring his legs in public and wearing a skirt during the school run.
Man Banned From Dressing As Britney Spears Near School Gates
In December 2008, Mr Trigger was spotted about primary schools in Northampton wearing a “Britney Spears-style schoolgirl uniform.”
Parents walking with their children to nearby Woodvale Primary School had claimed Trigger had bent over, shown his bare thighs and indicated he was wearing no underwear.
We thought Mr Trigger a brave man, a lure to paedos, pervert and Spears fans, who would approach the child and then be dealt a severe blow to their self-esteem and mind’s eye. But it seems that not all agree.
Posted: 4th, February 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Beijing Taxi Driver Chains Son To Post While He Works
IN Beijing, rickshaw driver Chen Chuanliu chains his two-year-old son Lao Lu to a tree while he’s working. He says this is because he can’t afford a nursery place.
Last month his four-year-old daughter Ling disappeared. Chen is taking no chances.
“My wife is ill and I can’t stop work. So I chain him to a pole when I have a fare. It seems harsh but it is better than losing him.”
Anorak has one word: tandem.
Posted: 4th, February 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Bury Man Sought In Animal Sperm Tossing Attacks
ARE you the animal semen thrower of old Bury town? Do you pass an evening tossing animal semen on schoolgirls?
Detectives in Greater Manchester say you are “disgusting”.
One victim was hit with a sticky liquid – later found to be animal semen - on her tights. Another girl, agreed 15, was attacked in…Ostrich Lane, Prestwich (a clue?).
Another girl had a white substance smeared on her bottom. Another girl noticed liquid dripping from her skirt.
Posted: 3rd, February 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Farmer Filder Forced To Demolish His Castle
ROBERT Fidler, of Salfords, Surrey, must demolish his home. Mr Fidler built a castle, with turrets. And a canon. Mr Fidler did not get planning permission.
The home was hidden behind bales of straw and tarpaulin for four years. He believed that after this time, a legal loop hole would allow him to keep his house.
Then a Government inspector said that the removal of the straw bales constituted part of the building works and the four-year immunity rule would not apply. To the High Court, then.
Posted: 3rd, February 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Germany’s Festival of Boobs Delivers Topless Sledging
THE Festival of Boobs is one of Europe’s premier topless sledging tournaments. The first rubber is scheduled to take place in Oberwiesenthal, Germany.
The runners and riders are massed. Training has been intense- Vaseline, Chapstick and a hard varnish.
Says Mayor Mirko Ernst:
“No one has anything against the traditional annual sledging events. But the vast majority of residents oppose the topless sledging idea. The good reputation of our town would suffer.”
But how, then to begin what will in time become a noble tradition?
Posted: 3rd, February 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Straight Outta Clacton: A Video Reply
WHEN John Terry Meets Die Antwoord: Video, we wondered is Afrikaans rap could be bested? And then we met the The McDonalds Main Men, and heard their song Straight Outta Clacton:
All Characters & Actions Dipicted From Here On In, Even Those Based On Real People, Are Purley Fictitious, Any Similarity To Actual Persons In Purley Coincidental.
The Creators Of This Video Have No Direct Contact With Any Of The People, Brands Or Groups That Appear In The Picture And Do Not Wish To Give Them A Bad Image, This Video Was Prodcued Purely For Parodic Reasons.
Posted: 3rd, February 2010 | In: Terrible TV | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
University Worker Spanked Women For ‘Pain Management’ Study
TO Bristol Crown Court, where University of Bath Karl Woodgett, 37, is said to have filmed himself caning the women at a Bristol hotel. It is alleged that Mr Woodgett (nominative determinism, readers) admsintered the spankings in exchange for degrees.
Mr Woodgett paid Cameroonians Elsie Neh and Mbone Kemba to be spanked to help with his research into “pain management”.
Posted: 3rd, February 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Miranda Kerr Strips Off On Australian News Show: Video And Pictures (NSFW)
ON Australia’s Seven News, viewers can see a Macquarie banker researching near-naked shots of supermodel Miranda Kerr.
Seven News was interviewing Macquarie private wealth adviser Martin Lakos on some financial stuff. Over his shoulder, viewers can see a worker contemplating pictures of Kerr’s photoshoot from GQ magazine.
In Pictures: The Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show
“Macquarie takes matters such as the unacceptable use of technology extremely seriously. Macquarie has strict policies in place surrounding the use of technology and the issue arising from today’s live cross on 7 News is being dealt with internally.”
Posted: 2nd, February 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
