Woman uses scabies to batter landlord in unlikely attack
TO Salem, Massachusetts, where an unhappy tenant has been arrested and charged with attempting to set her ‘cohabitants’ loose on her landlord, specifically using her scabies as a dangerous weapon to “assault and batter”. (Those things are huge in Salem – as big as your fist.)
The woman has complained that her home was infested with insects and mice. The landlord visited. She introduced him to her ‘pets’. He slapped her across the face.
Posted: 22nd, May 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
What is the Beast of Hackney Marshes?
JUST in time for the London Olympics, news reaches us of the Beast of Hackney Marshes.
Helen Murray spotted the creature by the Old River Lea. She took photos. Says she:
“I tried to stay calm as I wasn’t sure what kind of animal it was or if it was even alive. I had my phone ready to call 999. Then the creature moved. Somehow I managed to take a couple of pictures before I ran.”
Posted: 21st, May 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Woman bites off lover’s penis during row
HARD time beckons for the 45-year-old Sri Lankan woman who bit off three-quarters of her 30-year-old lover’s penis during a row.
The man has been named as Chandana Pradeep, aka Chandana Not-So-Deep-But Size-Doesn’t-Matter…
Posted: 21st, May 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Police rescue constipated man – truncheons drawn
TO Canada, where police are responding to an emergency call. A woman has heard the noises of pain emerging from a Victoria property. She has dialled 911.
The police are at the scene. They have rapped on the door but no-one has answered.
Posted: 21st, May 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
The sounds of noisy sex in Salford are a hit on the prudish web
LEE Moore made a 26-second-long recording of his neighbours having sex in Salford, Greater Manchester. He posted it on the internet.
Moore tells the Sun:
“I went on the balcony to see where the screams were coming from. The woman in the apartment below was shouting at them to either shut their windows or shut up…My windows were shut but I could still hear them clear as a bell.”
The Sun headlines the story:
Noisy sex neighbours might come after me
Posted: 19th, May 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Annoying man attacks resting alligator – video
GOOD news reporting is about show and not tell. Here’s Alyssa Newcomb reporting on a man who attacked an alligator minding its own business as it wallowed by a North Carolina road:
“A scientist’s arm almost became a snack for an angry alligator caught roaming along a North Carolina highway.”
Was the alligator angry before a man tossed an old towel on its head and then straddles it from behind? The gator looked pretty chilled. But that’s the thing when you place human emotion on another kind of being, it’s hard to know what they’re thinking.
“As he bent down to move the alligator, it bit his arm as he cooly backed away from a situation that could have been far worse.”
Posted: 18th, May 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Israel adds honey bees to its army of vultures and sharks
THE Israelis are not only using sharks and vultures to do their spying, but also birds, specifically the European bee-eater (Merops Apiaster). One bird has crashed into a field near Gaziantep in Turkey. On its leg it carries a ring declaring ”Israel”. Locals call the police. .
You see, the bird-beak had “unusually large nostrils”. Yeah, the bird had a big nose. Locals wondered if it contained a surveillance device, such as Israel’s prototype Spotter Snot.
The story appeared in Yedioth Ahronoth, which tells us that after the shock find, Ankara’s security bureau was called in.
Posted: 17th, May 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comments (4) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Iceland MP moves elves’ boulder home to his garden
AS the economy plunges into the abyss, we look to Iceland’s politicians for guidance. Over there, Árni Johnsen, an MP for the Independence Party, has moved a 30-ton boulder, home to three generations of elves, from Sandskeið in southwest Iceland to his home Höfðaból in the Westman Islands.
Árni met the elves in January 2010, when his car flipped over and landed close to a huge bolder. A thought struck him. What if the boulder was where elves lived? What if they had protected him for death? As he says:
“I had Ragnhildur Jónsdóttir, a specialist in the affairs of elves from Álfagarðurinn in Hellisgerði, Hafnarfjörður, to come look at the boulder with me. She said it was incredible, that she had never met three generations of elves in the same boulder before. She said an elderly couple lives on the upper floor but a young couple with three children on the lower floor.”
Posted: 17th, May 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comments (6) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Who stole £1000-worth of sex toys from a flat in Gilgal, Stourport-on-Severn, Worcestershire?
WHO stole £1000-worth of sex toys from a flat in Gilgal, Stourport-on-Severn, Worcestershire?
The 400 aides were nicked some time between 9 and 10 May 2012.
Kylie Jones, 24, tells media:
“I’m not seeing their logic in terms of why they would want to steal them.”
Posted: 16th, May 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Man fist-pumps for 16 hours to set new world record
SPECIOUS World Record of the Day goes to Ohio’s 34-year-old fistman James Peterson, who fist-pumped for 16 hours, starting at 11am on Friday and ending at 3am on Saturday.
Unemployed Peterson kept his fist tight with super-glue.
As he says:
“I have set the qualifications for this record and every minute that I do this is a new record. My fist is super-glued together to ensure I maintain perfect fist formation.”
Posted: 15th, May 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comments (4) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Magic traps cheating husband insider another man wife – video
A CHEATING husband became trapped insde his married mistress in Nairobi. The woman’s husband scored his revenge by using black magic. He sought help from a witchdoctor. With the right magic the wife’s lover would be unable to exit. It worked. Police were called. But they could not separate the lovers. The husband said he’d only free the man if he coughed up Sh20,000 (£150) in compensation. The cheater agreed. Prayers were offered up and the man and woman went their separate ways.
The otherworldy voiceover on this video is great – “the big crowd swelled” being a choice cut:
Posted: 14th, May 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Does swimmers’ urine kill German fish?
DOES urine kill fish? Well, yes, obviously if you stick a goldfish in a pub’s urinal it will die. But expects say the deaths of hundreds of fish in Eichbaum lake, Hamburg, Germany, is down to swimmers’ urine.The wee is enjoyed by plants, triggering an algal bloom that makes the water uninhabitable for the fish.“Swimmers who urinate in the lake are introducing a lot of phosphate. We’re calculating half a litre of urine per swimmer per day.”
Posted: 13th, May 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Police stop man for driving whilst radioactive
TO Connecticut, where Mike Apatow has been pulled over by the polcie for Driving Whilst Radioactive.
Apatow has recently been for a blood test at the Cardiology Associates of Fairfield County in Trumbull. The test involves inserting a dose of radioactive matter into his blood system. Medics do this to best record blood movement around the heat. Local pollice cars are fitted with devices to sense radioactivity. And one has picked up Apatow.
As he says:
“I asked the officer `What seems to be the problem?’ He said `You’ve been flagged as a radioactive car.’”
Posted: 13th, May 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
70-year-old virgin Pam Shaw looking seeks Simon Cowell to break her duck
PAM Shaw, the 70 year old Mancunian cabaret singer advertising for sex, has no descendants to embarrass. The ‘Queen of Wigan Pier’ is not Sheila Vogel, aka porn star Ruby Tuesday, the octogenarian escort operating under the name Grand Dame Cecilia Bird, entrepreneurial grandmother to the X Factor former wannabe Katie Waissel.
Shaw is an OAP, and not one given to ruminating on her aching joints and lamenting her loneliness now that her life’s work – kids, pets – are all left of dead. Her nom de
sparkle is Sexational Pam. She tells the Sun: “I’m ready to take the plunge for the right bloke.” Wrong blokes include such crooner swooners as Englebert Humperdinck and Tom Jones, who have trodden the boards with Pam but never cause them to squeak.
Posted: 12th, May 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Mexican couple row over teddy stuffed with heroin
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WOULD you be more unnerved by a man and a woman fighting in the street over drugs or a teddy bear? We ask in light of news Juárez, Mexico, where Efraín Vera Chávez, 39, is rowing over a teddy bear with Edith Ortiz Sandoval, 29. Police notice the fracas. Edith tells the police the bear is hers and that Efraín is in a jealous rage. She says a mystery man gave it to her and Efraín is upset.As the copper orders Efraín to hand over the bear to Edith he notices a small hole in the toy. Inside, the cop finds 245 aluminum packets filled with heroin.
Posted: 11th, May 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
George Galloway presents the Enfield Poltergeist
GEORGE Galloway now narrates the story of the The Enfield Poltergeist. Galloway makes his appearance in his son-in-law Jay Stewart’s film of the horror in north London.
It’s 1977. Peggy Hodgson, a single mum and her four children are living in a rented 3-bedroom home at 284 Green Street, Enfield, London.It’s the home where Bill Wilkins once lived and died. Things have been moving about the place, as if one their own. Thing are going bump in the night. There is a tapping running up and down the walls. And then one night Janet Hodgson, 11, opens her mouth and out comes the voice of an old man. It says:
“Just before I died, I went blind, and then I had an haemorrhage and I fell asleep and I died in the chair in the corner downstairs.”
Afraid – and not only of the home’s decor – Peggy Hodgson called the police. WPC Carolyn Heeps signed a statement that she had seen a chair move: “A large armchair moved, unassisted, 4 ft across the floor.”
Posted: 11th, May 2012 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Sweden records biggest ever seizure of cowboy hats
“THIS is our largest seizure of cowboy hats,”said Morten Nystuen of the Kongsvinger customs in Sweden.
It would be tempting to end the story there before heading off to the wilds of Sweden’s western provinces to investigate how a haul of 540 cowboy hats has topped all other local seizes of cowboy hats. But the sun’s just arrived for summer, and we will make do with scanning local new bulletins for signs of Scandinavian cowboys making do with the plastic policeman’s helmet they bought on a trip to London…
Posted: 11th, May 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Keith Manual arrested for robbing Dallas police station with an imaginary gun
SPOT The Idiot: “I didn’t say nothing like that, I swear to God I didn’t say nothing like that; that’s why they didn’t find no guns on me. Man I play like that all the time, I didn’t think she would take it seriously.”
So says Keithan Manuel, 18, of his appearance in the Dallas police headquarters. Manuel approached the desk and told the officer on duty that he was carrying a gun under a white towel spread over his hands. Manuel asks the officer to hand over all the cash in the station.
Says Police Chief Victor Kemp:
“He said he’d like to check on a warrant, but it was pretty obvious it was a situation … he gave a different name and after a few moments of maybe playing it off he said ‘you do know I have a gun’. At that point he seemed to be very serious,”
Posted: 10th, May 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Female trio did not rape 17 men for their sperm
TO Zimbabwe, where Rosemary Chakwizira, 24, Sophie Nhokwara, 26, and her sister, Netsai Nhokwara, 24, have been found not guilty of raping 17 men and harvesting their victims’ sperm for witchcraft.
As reported by the AFP, all charges have been dropped. The women’s lawyer Dumisani Mthombeni tells media:
“The state has withdrawn the charges. The police arrested the wrong people.”
Posted: 8th, May 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
The William Shakespeare insult generator
LEARN to insult like an Elizabethan with the William Shakespeare insult generator. Begin each sentence with “thou” and you’re all set. (Also works in some parts of the Caribbean, Central Africa and remote parts of Australia).
Posted: 8th, May 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Conservative politician offered mother and daughter to cannibals
THESE are testing times for Europe’s Conservatives. Take Hans Ulrich R, founder of the Embrachertal branch of the Conservative Party, a cheese maker, convicted murderer (in 1988 he murdered a woman then impaled her on a tree) and Winterthur council staffer in trouble for advertising that a friend’s wife and daughter wanted to be killed and eaten. The advert posted on the web in 2010 said that Peter J’s wife, Patricia J, 27, and and their 12-year-old daughter craved being dead and eaten by a “sadistic master or butcher who can educate us mindless creatures”.
The ad went on:
“We are also keen to meet gentlemen interested in slaughter and dolce who would like to roast us on a spit.”
Posted: 8th, May 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Frankie and Louis are the Janus cat – photos
JANUS Cat of the day is / are Frank (left) and Louie (right) – one name for each face. Frankie/ Louis lived with Marty in Worcester, Mass. The Janus cat is named after the Roman god of doorways, who had two faces on one head. Frankie / Louie is in the Guinness World Records as the world’s longest-living Janus cat. He died in February 2012. Incidentally, what would you call your Janus?
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In this Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2011 photo, a cat with two faces, named Frank and Louie, is held by the cats owner, who identified herself only as Marty, at their home in Worcester, Mass. The animal is known as a Janus cat, named for the figure in Roman mythology with two faces on one head. The owner calls the face on the left Frank, while the face on the right is identified as Louie. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
Posted: 7th, May 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Boy falls through pavement in China – video
WHEN a 2-year-old boy in China got his leg caught in a gap in the pavement, the camera crews zoomed in. We’ve already seen a grown woman falling through a Chinese pavement. Now we see if a small child can be snared by the cannibal clowns that dwell below China’s streets. He can’t. He gets stuck. But his problems are not yet over because the man from ITN news has a voiceover to produce. China is not versed in the “where there’s blame there’s a claim” culture, and the lad is said to be “embarrassing” and suffering from “indignity”. We are invited to wonder about the “psychological scars”.
Posted: 7th, May 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Dad finds son’s tortured turtle 45 years after it was branded and released
HOLLAND Cokeley has found a turtle in South Strabane, Washington County, garden. On the underside he reads the message “JC 1965″. He tells us:
“I picked it up, and I thought ‘Oh geez, this is Jeff’s turtle!’. It’s been here for 47 years, and it still has the same the same markings on it!”
Jeff is Holland’s son, who when aged 13 caught the wild animal and carved his initials into its shell. (1965 might be the last time dad cut the grass.)
Posted: 7th, May 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Welsh penguin thieves explain all
RHYS Jones and Keri Mules stole a penguin named Dirk from Sea World, Australia. They were both fined. And Jones has lost work. As he says:
“People look at us a bit different. We were upstanding and had a really good reputation and we tried hard to keep the whole thing under wraps but the media completely exposed us – it’s just been hectic.”
Adding:
“I can remember swimming with the dolphins and then I woke up that morning, grabbed my wallet, went to get changed, opened my cupboard and there was a bloody penguin in my cupboard – in my walk-in wardrobe.”
Changing the cupboard to a walk-in-wardrobe makes the story better, doesn’t it?
Posted: 6th, May 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
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