In Pictures: Coma Victim Rom Houben’s Life
ROM Houben lay in a hospital for 23 years. People thought he was in a coma after a car accident in 1983. Three years ago Doctor Steven Laureys discovered Rom was not in a coma and was in fact conscious.
Mr Houben is now writing his memoirs with the aid of an electronic keyboard:
“I screamed, but there was nothing to hear. I dreamed myself away. All that time I just literally dreamed of a better life. Frustration is too small a word to describe what I felt.”
Also, unless Dr ***** gives me £3m in gold by noon tomorrow Mr Houben will tell everyone what I heard him confess to in July 1998. And then there is the case of Nurse Liege, whom should pray for forgiveness for leaving BBC News 24 on for the past five years on my hospital telly…”
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Posted: 24th, November 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Her Majesty The Queen Wears T-Shirt On Offical Christmas Card
CATHERINE Masters is 110. For the past 10 birthdays he has received a card from the Queen. And each time the picture on the card is of her Majesty wearing the same yellow dress.
Masters, of Stanford-in-the-vale, wrote to the Queen to complain. Prince William popped over to apologise and say that Her Majesty only has one outfit and that the card can only really change when granny dies.
Would Her Majesty be forced to pick up a large red crayon and redesign her outfit? At the eleventh hour, our Queen was able to borrow a dress as worn by her late mother, and having posed for a photo she stuck it to the card with her own spittle.
Posted: 24th, November 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
China’s Dough Figurine Master He Xiaozheng’s Latest Work
MINI dough figurines are all the rage in China. These dough balls were made by 70-year-old dough figurine master He Xiaozheng. The dough figurines feature in half of a walnut shell and are being compared with a one-yuan coin in Ji’nan, Shandong Province of China. Why anyone would want to make a tiny dough statute of Victoria Beckham is not immediately obvious. Maybe it’s ironic…
Posted: 23rd, November 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Teacher Sues School For Slipping On A Used Condom
KAREN Hollander has sued the US Department of Education for injuries sustained in slipping on a condom left outside a Manhattan high school.
Hollander says “slippery foreign substances” outside the High School of Art & Design caused her to fall.
Posted: 23rd, November 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Christmas Turkey Assaults Woman
YOU know Christmas is coming when you read of the Dorchester man arrested for assault and battery with a frozen turkey.
Mark Woodward is alleged to have bashed his lover with the frozen bird. It is said he did this to prevent her from speaking to her mother on the phone for too long.
The Boston Police Department report says the frozen bird was thrown and hit the lover on her hip.
Posted: 23rd, November 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Swedish Sisters Sue Funeral Company For Dropping Father Into Grave Too Fast
HOW do you want to be buried: fast or slow? In Sweden, two sisters say they father’s coffin was dropped into the earth too fast. The sisters claim dad was almost dropped by two drunk undertakers.
We join the scene. The undertakers carry dad aloft. They approach the grave with a reel. They lose their grip. The coffin falls. It lands on the ground on its side.
Says the sisters’ lawyer:
“Both daughters were in shock and ran away in tears from the cemetery. They didn’t dare to look in the grave as they were convinced the coffin had opened and their dead father had fallen out.”
Posted: 22nd, November 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Oxford Man Parks By Downing Street And Has Car Blown Up
MEET Oxford shop owner Michael Raphel, who parked his car in a London street and returned to find it had been blown up by the police.
Mr Raphel parked his red Honda Civic Type R on Horse Guard Avenue - close to Downing Street - having dropping two passengers at Embankment, by the River Thames. A Remembrance Sunday Parade was due to start.
He had parked on double yellow lines.
Posted: 21st, November 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Turner Prize Artists Enter Naked Barbies In A Knickerless Cage
Naked Barbies in Knickerless Cage? It’s art…
THE Wedmore’s Turnip Prize, is a spoof version of the Turner Prize, with awards being given for the worst art. The award seem unnecessarily, dive that the Turner Prize seems specifically constructed to look an award for bad art.
Every year, Old Mr Anorak enters his Vomit In Sock, a biting satire on the: fashion trade (1982) – a full two years before the show was opened to other artists – the French (1997), camping (1999) and Binge Britain (2003), to name but four reasons.
Posted: 21st, November 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Dancer Paid To Have Epileptic Fit On Stage, Jedward Dance On
ANSWERING the question “How do you follow autistic Jedward, the X Factor Duracell Gonks?”, the Arts Council pushes an epileptic dancer into the stage and pays her £14k to stop taking her medication and fit on stage.
Laydeesandgentalmeen, we give you Rita Marcalo. Rolling-Eyed Rita will dance for 24-hours. She will not sleep. She will appear under strobe lighting. This is not exploitation, viewers - this is “conceptual and physical interfaces between dance, movement and epilepsy”.
This sit not paying the sufferer loadsa money to perform for our titillation and amusement. This is art, you ignorant heathen.
Posted: 20th, November 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Peru Arrests Men For Liquidising Fat People For Beauty Industry
IN Peru, four men are arrested on suspicion of harvesting the fat from the obese and selling it as fuel for European cosmetics.
This is victimless crime, right New Labour? The fat get put out of their misery; the thin don’t have to see the fat; the beautiful people who actually care about their looks get to look more beautiful - so long as they don’t eat the stuff – and the fat finally get to touch thin flesh.
Posted: 20th, November 2009 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
The Hotdoll Dog Sex Toy, In Pictures
IN France, not all things are done with the hand, and news reaches of French company ‘Rotodesign’, which has launched the ‘Hotdoll’ dog sex toy.
(One imagines that dog enthusiasts can make use of the device too, as can smokers looking for a novelty ashtray.) It’s been designed by veterinarians to seduce dogs in heat. When trapped the dogs’ loins are wired to a wheel attached to a dynamo.
Hotdoll hosts a plastic tank with a removable silicone tube. It retails at 399 euros. A giant model will now be designed for large dogs, and engorged owners. We make no comment, just bring you the dog sex toy picture gallery:
Christmas Gifts: Laptop Steering Wheel Desk By Mobile Office Outsells PS3
Posted: 20th, November 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comments (4) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Man Uses Katie Price’s Old Jordans As Muscle Implants, Video
IT turns out that Katie Price’s old breast implants are not used as filler for car bumpers not are they formed into a defence shield along the US-Canada border. Breast implants are repackaged as muscle implants.
The 10 Men Most Likely To Marry Katie Price
One man invested in some. One problem might be if they inherit character traits of the previous owner. If so, look out for him squiring Peter Andre, singing in Eurovision and jumping so hard that they rearrange his features…
For Cheryl, June and all the Anorak ladies:
The Katie Price Burning: A Life In Pictures
Posted: 20th, November 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comments (4) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Father Murders Son For Molesting 3-Year-Old Girl
TO Highland Park, Michigan where Jamar Pinkney Sr, 37, learns that his son Jamar Pinkney Jr, 15, has had sexual contact with a 3-year-old girl, makes the teen strip at gunpoint, marches him off and shoots him dead.
Jamar Pinkney Sr is charged with first-degree murder.
Posted: 19th, November 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Jesus Saves: Virgin Mary Opens Bank
AT the Shrine Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes near Emmitsburg, Mount St. Mary’s University, a woman is leaving her precious coin collection for safe keeping.
This is replica of the original shrine. It’s in Baltimore.
The haul of $40,000-worth of rare U.S. coins will be safe under the virgin Mary’s watchful gaze.
A gardener finds the two plastic freezer bags filled with gold and silver while raking leaves. He jumps for joy and says that it is God’s will that he is now rich. Oh, happy, happy day.
Posted: 19th, November 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
US Police Trained To Use Tasers On Children, And Do
IN Today’s edition of Super Nanny uncut, Ozark police Taser a 10-year-old girl who has been talking back to her parents.
Says a relieved dad Anthony Medlock:
“I would like to say Ozark police Tased this little girl right here. Ten years old and [they] shot electricity through her body, and I want to know how the heck in God’s green earth can they get away with this.”
Ozark police Officer Dustin Bradshaw should have sat her down on the naughty step first? Then call the police? Says dad, concerned about police brutality:
“If you can’t pick the kid up and take her to your car, handcuff her, then I don’t think you need to be an officer.”
Posted: 18th, November 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Kite Surfers Jump Worthing Pier
KITE Surfers have found a new use for Britain’s seaside piers – jumping over them.
Kite surfers Jake Scrace, 25, and Lewis Crathern, 24, have jumped over Worthing pier.
Harnessing the 40mph gusts, the pair set sail from Goring to the west of Worthing. They then jumped the pier. Says Mr Scrace:
“It was probably the most terrifying thing I’ve ever built up to. We were practising down the road and we were pretty confident we were going to do it but as soon as we got nearer the pier it was quite hard.”
He calls it “terrifying”. Mr Crathern says it was “epic“. Adding: “It was everything I’ve lived for – amazing.
Posted: 18th, November 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Russian Pole Dancer Brings Down Wedding Tent On Bride’s Face
TO a wedding in Russia, where a pole dancing guest tugs too hard on the tent props and brings the whole thing crashing down on the guest, and the bride’s face.
This is like how Old Mr Anorak met Lady Anorak IV, only back then the pole was covered in jelly and Latviana was marrying a donkey called Danny. Cue the wedding video:
Posted: 18th, November 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Man Arrested For Disguising Potatoes As Chocolates
TO Miami International Airport, where a man is trying to smuggle potatoes into the country disguised as chocolates.
Stopped by the US border goons, our potato enthusiast was ordered to pay a $300 penalty for trying to smuggle fresh sweet potatoes from Bolivia into the Land of the Free.
Posted: 17th, November 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Aliens Caught On Camera As 68 Score Wingsuit Skydiving Record
ALL over the internets pictures of “68 specially-qualified wingsuit skydivers” setting the “official US record for Wingsuit Formation Skydiving”.
It was in aide of Raise the Sky, an LA charity that wants to keep children in school.
But look again at the picture. There are not 68 parachutes. There are 70. Who are the other two skydivers? And why is one of them so tiny?
1. The 68 - this picture taken from the official website.
Posted: 17th, November 2009 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comments (9) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Australians Eat Possum Pizza In Back-To-Front Shorts
PHILIP Andrew Gilmore, 35, “terrorised shopkeepers dressed only in inside-out, back-to-front football shorts.”
The terror was compounded by Gilmore wearing the shorts on her backside, not on his heard or ankles.
Posted: 17th, November 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
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