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.
Plague Of Porn Mags And Sandwiches Rain Down On Kent
SEEKING signs of Harold Camping’s impending apocalypse when the world will end and the rapture arrives, we journey to Borough Green, Kent, where lorry drivers have been tossing their porn mags onto the Maidstone Road. No, not filing them and keeping them crisp-edged beneath the vinyl seat covers – actually throwing them away like there is no tomorrow.
Say a local:
“The pornos used to be quite a problem but then we didn’t see any for a while. It started up again a couple of months ago. Recently a lady crossed the road to put one in my skip, which I wasn’t angry about because I would much rather it was off the road.”
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Posted: 20th, May 2011 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment
11 Reasons Why The World Ends On May 21 2011 – In Pictures
AS you know the world will end on May 21 2011. May 21 is Doomsday. The world is ending on Saturday. The world is, readers, ending tomorrow. We know this because we’ve been given a head’s up by one of the world’s top 100 leading fundamentalist amateur Christian mathematicians in America, none other than the great Harold Camping. (Religion’s gain is Countdown’s loss). So. While we while away the last moments cancelling the milk and setting fire to the EastEnders set, we bring you more irrefutable proof that the world is ending, presented by Miley Cyrus, Snooki, Oprah Winfrey, Pizza Cookies, Suri Cruise, Shiloh Jolie-Pitt, Starbucks and Justin Bieber (and her)…
Posted: 20th, May 2011 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comments (2)
World Ends May 21 2011: 7000 Years Of Waiting For The Rapture Is Finally Over
THE World ends on May 21. A Christian radio network has new of your death. Harold Camping, the head of the Family Radio broadcasting network, says the apocalypse will begin on May 21.
Hard cheese on you lot waiting for the new iPhone 5, and Arsene Wenger’s plans to come to fruition.
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Posted: 19th, May 2011 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comments (8)
Are London Underground Staff Running People Smuggling Caper In Mexico?
MEXICAN police in the country’s southern Chiapas state discovered 513 people secreted inside two trailer trucks headed for the US.
The report states that some of the people seeking a new life in the US were dehydrated. Other were tired from hanging onto ropes strung along the containers. They had all paid well over the odds for their trip.
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Posted: 19th, May 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Golfer Hit Fox That Stole His Tunnocks Caramel Wafer
NEW ways to kill foxes: Donald Forbes’s Golf Club.
Forbes, a 55-year-old golfer at the Peterculter Golf Club, Aberdeen, used a club (unspecified, but believed to be a driver. What club would you use?) to strike a fox that stole a Tunnocks Caramel Wafer from his golf bag. Forbes hit it on the head. Another golfer, seeing the striken animal was refusing to die quickly, finished it off.
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Posted: 18th, May 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Flying Dog Falls On Old People
HOW did May the stray toy poodle come to fall from the sky into Canada’s Sechelt’s Shorncliffe Nursing Home? May’s ribs are broken. There are tears in her flesh.
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Posted: 18th, May 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Woman Kicked Off Train For Talking Loudly On Mobile Phone
TO Oregon, where Lakeysha Beard’s loud talking on her phone has caused other passengers in the “quiet zone” carriage on the Amtrak service to complain. They want her to reduce the volume. They say she has been talking loudly on her mobile for 16 hours – ever since the train left Oakland, California.
A heated exchange results. The train is stopped and police remove Beard.
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Posted: 18th, May 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)
Mum, Dad, Four Kids And A Baby Rob Petrol Station
THE 49-year-old Malaysian taxi driver, his wife and their five children, including a baby girl, are robbing a petrol station in Bandar Baru Permas Jaya. Using swords they stole chocolcate and cigarettes. They then fled in a car, leading police on a nine-mile chase before surrendering.
Johor Baru South police chief Assistant Commissioner Zainuddin Yaacob says:
“While his wife and baby waited in his taxi, the man and his four older children robbed the petrol station, with his eight-year-old keeping lookout while holding onto a sword. The other three accompanied their father into the petrol station, armed with swords, and robbed the shop of four packs of cigarettes and chocolates.”
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Posted: 17th, May 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Newham Traffic Warden Caught Driving Wrong Way Up Road
BECAUSE there are few things more satisfying than watching a lightning rod of righteousness break the law, here’s news of a council traffic warden racing the wrong way up Fourth Avenue, Manor Park, Newham, London, to give someone a ticket.
A Newham Council spokesman rubs his gold chains and says:
“It does not reflect the work of the majority of parking attendants who keep traffic in Newham moving.”
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Posted: 14th, May 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Who Is The Sonoma Enema Bandit?
“YOU are not, you are definitely not, going to believe this,” says Sonoma Police Sgt. Spencer Crum.
Police are hunting the enema bandit. The story goes like this:
May 1, 2011: A 53-year-old man is stood by his home. He eyesight is not too good. A “woman” appears. She says she has arrived to give him an enema. He has not long recovered from surgery. He think this is understandable and allows the woman inside his home.
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Posted: 12th, May 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Robert Kennedy Is Our Tattoo Face Mug Shot Of The Day
ROBERT Norton Kennedy, 51, of South Carolina, is our Face Tattooed Mug Shot of The day. On his forehead, Kennedy carries the legend:
“Please forgive me if I say or do anything stupid. Thank You!
“With God All Things Are Possible. God Loves You”
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Posted: 11th, May 2011 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment
Schoolboy Wears Sisters Skirt To Class In Cambridge
HURRAH for Chris Whitehead, the 12-year-old who goes to Impington Village College, near Cambridge, in his younger sister’s skirt.
He says that being made to wear long trousers is unfair when girls are allowed to wear skirts. It is, says he, “discriminatory“.
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Posted: 11th, May 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comments (6)
Girl Born With Two Heads In China
TO China, where Bao Qiaoying, 25, has given birth to a child with two heads (or twins with one body?).
Says she:
“My husband and I immediately went to the central hospital for another checkup and colour Doppler imaging confirmed my baby has two heads but one body.”
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Posted: 10th, May 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)
Jesus Beaten Up In Whitstable, Kent: Local News Quote Of the Week
THE Herne Bay Operatic Society is in Whitstable to record moments for their hit show Jesus Christ Superstar.
Jamie Mount (Jesus) is under attack from his fellow actors, it being in the script. Witnesses see the fracas. They call the police. Police are attending.
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Posted: 7th, May 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Artist Suffocates In Performance Artwork
THE art world is taking note of Colombian art student John Jairo Villamil. He died in his artwork, the do-not-try-this-at-home Head In Plastic Bag –
The work featured Villamil with a bag over his head and his feet immersed in a bucket of water. In one had he held a chain with bills in one hand and a leaf in the other.
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Posted: 7th, May 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Police Capture Fastest Joint Roller In The West
SAYS police commissioner Enio de Oliveira Matos of Santa Catarina, Brazil:
“We had indications that it was him, but because he presented his brother’s papers as identification we had no proof.
“Given this peculiarity, we requested information from the Institute of Identification in the state of Parana, where he was born, and with this feature, it was possible to confirm his identity.”
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Posted: 6th, May 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Man Crucifies Himself For Easter: Romans Sought
THE South Korean man, known only as Mr Kim, has been found dead. The 58-year-old has been found nailed to a cross. He is dressed in underpants and a crown of thorns. He has a stab wound and ship marks on his torso. Before him is a mirror. Police find a hammer, a hand drill and a knife.
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Posted: 5th, May 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Dubai Woman Sues Husband For ‘Inhuman Sex’
TO Dubai, where a local woman is suing her husband to the tune of Dh45 million (£7.25m, $12m) for failing to have sex with her.
He has, m’lud, erectile dysfunction. this has forced her to engage in “inhumane sex“.
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Posted: 5th, May 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)
The Bin Laden Of Washington Shaves His Beard After 10 Years
TEN years ago, Washington’s Gary Weedle, now aged 50, made a pledge: he would not shave until Osama bin Laden was captured or killed.
The problem, of course, is that the longer you go without the razor, the more you look like Bin Laden. And he had a $27m bounty on his head. Blessedly, Weedle was neither lynched nor arrested. He lived.
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Posted: 4th, May 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Builder Gets Shovel Stuck Up His Anus
MICHAEL Mayer, 31, is the German builder who slipped from his ladder and landed on the handle of a shovel. The full 20 inches went up his backside.
In hospital, the handle is removed with the aid of an angle grinder, unguents and anesthetic.
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Posted: 4th, May 2011 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment (1)
Three Men In A Rubber Boat Win Andy Flintoff Award For Sailing
THE Andrew Flintoff Award for Sailing (in association with Jerome K Jerome) goes to the three men who at 9pm last Saturday set out into the English Channel from a beach at Littlehampton, West Sussex on a 7ft inflatable dingy.
They were dressed in the appropriate Flintoffian attire of shorts and T-shirts, and buffed against cold, pirates and cabin fever by a bottle of wine.
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Posted: 3rd, May 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
The World’s 10 Most Horrific Statues
BEFORE the 10 Most Horrific Statues to see, you should also see the Chinese sex park (must see), those very unsettling Michael Jackson statues, stop to make a wish, wee with a riot cop, get off on Prince Jefri of Brunei’s sex effigies and admire the boobs and go nude for Nelson.
Santa Claus
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Posted: 30th, April 2011 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment (1)
Police Hunt Robbers Disguised By Spray Tan
POLICE in Harford County, USA, are looking for armed robbers that hit JC Paintballs, of in Bel Air, MD. The two villains stole paintball guns, CO2 cartridges, paintball masks and various paintball supplies.
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Posted: 29th, April 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Guinness Rishi’s World Flag Tattoos Unite Humanity (Not Malawi)
GUINNESS Rishi carries on his body the tattoos of 185 maps, 165 mini-flags and 2,985 characters of different countries. He has done this to unite the world. And if man named after a premium beer cannot create world peace, who can? Will Carling?
While the UK celebrates a spot of Rishi’s forehead, the people of Malawi are only remembered when the weather is balmy and Mr Rishi is wearing a small loin cloth fashioned, perhaps, from the flag of the EU.
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Posted: 27th, April 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Malaysian Muslims Will No More Dance The Poco-Poco
TO Malaysia, where the National Fatwa Council and the Islamists are making a war dance:
Islamic clerics in Malaysia are firm on their ban on ‘poco-poco’ a popular dance form, claimed of having Christian roots, despite the country’s National Fatwa Council’s decision to allow the dance.
The Perak Fatwa council’s Mufti, Harussani Zakaria, said the state fatwa council was convinced that the dance contained elements of Christianity and spirit worshipp.
“We will not back down on our decision. It is final,” the Star quoted Zakaria, as saying.
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Posted: 26th, April 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)
