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.
Florida Woman Set Fire To Office To Go Home Early On Pay
MICHELLE Perrino, 40, set fire to her office so that she could go home early.
In Florida, the Pasco County Sheriff’s Office says Michelle Perrino, 40, commented at a meeting of the Bayonet Point Oxygen employees that the 2009 fire might – just might – have started in a filing cabinet, as they do.
The cause of fire had – at that time – not been established.
Perrino told a friend that she tripped the main circuit breaker and set phones to block incoming calls. All this so that she cold go home early and not forfeit a day’s pay.
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Posted: 26th, June 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Teenage Mum Explains Why Baby Smokes A Bong On Facebook
THE teenage mum who posted picures in Facebook of her baby smoking a marijuana bong explains why she dunnit. And, no Ardi Rizal is not involved. Anorak’s Man in La reports:
A teenage Florida mom who posted a Facebook pic of her baby appearing to do a bong hit is in some deep baby shit with child welfare investigators.
The 19-year-old mother is passing off the pic as a joke she was playing on a friend.
Speaking to Sky News by way of Facebook, the mom — whom we call “Mary Jane” — said it’s clear that the photo’s all in good fun.
“If u look at the picture u can see that there is no bowl in the TABACCO (sic) pipe. And i took a pic to show one F**king person and it was a mistake. I would never ever ever let him get high,” Mary Jane told Sky News.
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Posted: 26th, June 2010 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comments (4)
Drug Dealer Arrested With List Reminding Him to Deal Drugs
CRAWLEY Magistrates’ Court calls Thomas Franks, who at the time of his arrest for drugs dealing was found to be in possession of a list that read: “Sell push bike, go on the rob Sell weed, get a job.”
Choices. Or lyrics?
Franks pleaded guilty to possessing herbal cannabis with intent to supply. As for the lyrics, well, we’ve bene her before:
Britain Against Free Speech: Blogger Threatened With Prison
Posted: 25th, June 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Biking Couple Stuck In Drainpipe When Bike Hits Tree
THE couple on the motorbike in Fangzian, Hubei Province, China, have crashed into a tree. The impact has sent them flying. They end up wedged in a 50cm-wide drain pipe.
Firefighters arrive. Says Officer Yu Chunyou:
“Without immediate rescue, they would have been in trouble because of the polluted air in the tunnel and the dirty water.”
The couple were eventually freed. And a million sperm nod in sympathy…
Posted: 25th, June 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Vegetable Looks Like Naked Homer Simpson And Bert
ROOT Vegetable Picture of the Day takes us to Youxian, southern China, where healer Ming Huang has gown a fo-ti plant root that looks like Homer Simpson, or is it Bert from Sesame Street or a reborn Robin Cook?
Whoever it is or isn’t, it is not fit for children’s telly…
Posted: 25th, June 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (5)
Funniest And Weirdest Police Reports Ever
SOMETIMES the newspaper report is enough. Hey, sometimes the headline is enough. From the newspapers, Anorak presents the greatest, funniest and weirdest police reports ever. No need to report on these reports when they say it so well…
Posted: 25th, June 2010 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment
A World Without Health And Safety: In Pictures
DAVID Cameron pledges to be tough on the causes of Health and Safety. A nation cheers. Cameron blasts the UK’s “over-the-top” health and safety culture. We salute him. And we set about looking for pictures to show how they do it over there without fear of safety and with little care for health. We now bring you a vision of the future in our No Health and Safety gallery:
Posted: 25th, June 2010 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comments (2)
30 Years Jail For Lung Eater Nicolas Cocaign: Pictures
NICOLAS Cocaign, the one who ripped out his cellmates lung with a razorblade and, thinking it was his heart, ate it (with onions) is jailed for 30 years. Thierry Baudry was murdered and parts of his offal fried.
Sky News calls him “France’s Hannibal Lecter”.
Lecter is the genius subject of the Silence of The Lambs book and film. Cocaigne is a men with biro-like tattoos on his face who can’t a tell a heart from a lung.
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Posted: 25th, June 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
The World’s New Underwear Record
THE World’s new underwear record. We’re proud of you:
Posted: 25th, June 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Man Who Died In Bed Four Years Ago Told Housemates To Leave Him Alone
THE 50-year-old man told his four siblings aged between 44 and 71 in the northern village of Minnertsga to leave him alone. He went to his room. They left him alone. He died in his room. And his siblings and any other vistors to the house carried on ignoring him until the landlords wanted to do some work on his room.
Such are the facts.
Questions?
Posted: 24th, June 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Gay Sumo Wrestler Assaulted Woman Who Waved At Man Dressed As Snickers
IN Dublin a woman in an inflatable sumo wrestler suit has assaulted her ex girlfriend with a bottle of Smirnoff Ice who waved at a man dressed as a bar of Snickers.
Sandra Talbot (32) is fined €400 for assaulting her ex-partner Adrienne Martin with a bottle at the George pub
During the evening Talbot, who was wearing an inflatable sumo suit, bumped into her. When she turned around, the accused said to her: “Keep smiling, c**t.”
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Posted: 24th, June 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Mexicans Disguised As Disney Pinatas Invade Arizona: Troy Weeps
US Customs and Border Protection officcers have arrested a batallion of 108 fake Disney pinatas from Mexico. Arizona is now safe.
Customs and Border Protection supervisor Eli Villarreal puts the thing in persepctive:
“The piñatas may have an appearance of innocence but the aggregate shipment of illegal merchandise on a national scale can undermine the stability of our nation’s economy, which is a vital element in national security. Customs and Border Protection remains committed in securing our nation’s borders.”
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Posted: 24th, June 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Europe’s Most Perverted Dominatrix Arrested As British Client Dies (Pictures)
MISTRESS Lucrezia – real name: Ira V.D is “Europe’s most perverted dominatrix“. Quite some claim, you’d imagine, especially in an enlarged EU that takes in Greece.
Mistress Lucrezia dominates out of Belgium. And news is that a 58-year-old British client had dropped dead in the shower after an “intense session” with, at her villa near Brecht, in a town called Sint-Job-in-Goor (left at the red windmill).
Lucrezia, along with Mistress Juno, administers “extreme pain”. They have been arrested and charged with assault and battery. And, who knows, they might just love those handcuffs and barred walls. Leg irons cost extra.
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Posted: 24th, June 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (9)
Horse Boy Jessica Parker Captured On Google Street View
ARE you the Aberdeen Horse Head Boy captured on Google Street View? Are you Horse Boy? Are you Horse Boy Jessica Parker, to give you your full name?
Google Street View Is For Sex: Gallery
Horse Boy was spotted in Hardgate. Horse Boy wears dark trousers, a purple shirt and shoes by Anvil For Louboutin.
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Posted: 24th, June 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)
Moose-Faced Woman Hits Moose In Vancouver
IN Vancouver, Canada, two sisters have both hit a moose. Yvonne Studley was in Vancouver General Hospital having hit a moose in her car and been injured. Yvonne’s sister Connie Everitt was on her way to visit her wahn she too hit a moose and ended up in hospital.
Says Everitt:
“The coincidence of hitting a moose just like her sister ‘really threw me for a loop’.”
Nice to see the sisters back on form and engaging in some ribbing, but it might be best to wait until Yvonne’s fully better before taking the piss out of her looks…
Spotter: Anorakaren; observations by Yamspter
Posted: 24th, June 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Man Too Bald For Belfast Police Force Wins Appeal
A WANNABE copper has been rejected from the Police Service of Northern Ireland’s recruitment process because he is too bald to have a drugs test.
The test involves taking hair of up to 3cm in length,. But he didn’t have any. Furthermore, he could not provide harvest of 200 body hairs as an alternative.
The man calls in the lawyers.
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Posted: 24th, June 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Nuclear Power Is A Cottage Industry in Brooklyn
NEW Yorker Mark Suppes spends his days working as a web developer for Gucci and his nights building a nuclear rector in Brooklyn.
Yes, nuclear power is a cottage industry. Mr Suppes nuclear power is hand-made and exclusive. New Yorkers will love it.
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Posted: 24th, June 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (4)
The World’s Weirdest And Stupidest Tattoos
TATTOOS mark you out as an individual. Unless you get those Chinese character ones. A bum one. A tramp stamp. Or those green tribal ones. A super hero. Something pornographic. Or the ones on your face. Or the Michael Jackson ones. Or ones spelt wrong. Everyone has those. You need a tattoo that says you are who you are. You need a tattoo that screams individuality. You needs a tattoo that makes you stand out. You need one of these – or not:
Posted: 23rd, June 2010 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment (1)
Bigamist’s Hindu And Muslim Wives Fight Over Remains
WAS bigamist Chandan Kumar Chakrabarty, alias Sazzad Hossain, a Muslim or Hindu when he was murdered?
Wife number one says “Hindu”. She wants his remains to be cremated. Wife No. 2 says “Muslim”. She wants him buried.
And so to court. Says policeman Delwar Hossain:
“If we still can’t decide, the court will then see if we need to re-examine the body and see if he had been circumcised.”
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Posted: 23rd, June 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Polish Art Nazis’ Naked Minnie Mouse Hits The Synagogue
NOT only is Minnie Mouse naked but she is also naked before a big Nazi swastika. What’s more, naked Nazi mini mouse is next to a synagogue in Poznan.
No. Not an advert for Lithuanian tit-bits. This is art.
But the artists have some way to go to match the out-there whackyness of the Nazis, who during the Second World War looted the synagogue, killed the Jews inside and turned the place into a swimming pool.
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Posted: 23rd, June 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)
The Worst Wedding Photos Ever
THE Worst Wedding Photographs Ever are not yours. The worst wedding photos ever feature a vomit of drunk grooms (that is the correct group term?), a resignation of brides and a disgust of passing people who should not be out. Let’s toast the happy couple. It’s kinder…
(Feel free to sumbit your own here)
Posted: 23rd, June 2010 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comments (3)
French Prisoner Eats Murdered Cellmate’s Lung With Fried Onions
NICOLAS Cocaign, 39, is accused of killing his cellmate Thierry Baudry and then eating his lung.
It is said that in January 2007, Mr Cocaign of Rouen punched, kicked, stabbed and suffocated Mr Baudry. Eh then cut out his lung and ate part raw. The rest was – and this is so very French – fried with some onions on an improvised cooker in his cell.
Yep, no garlic. Which might explain why Mr Cocaign is a pariah.
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Posted: 22nd, June 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (4)
Famiy Dies Trying To Kill Rats With Exhaust Fumes
IT seemed like a good idea when a family of three in Ukraine’s Dnepropetrovsk region decided to kill rat in their home with exhaust fumes of their Zaporozhets vehicle.
The 71-year-old dad attached a hose to the exhaust pipe of the family’s ZAZ-968 Zaporozhets runabout. He placed the other end of the hose in the basement. He started the engine. The rats would be doomed.
Later he grew curious.
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Posted: 22nd, June 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)
Brothel Home Makeovers: The Vegas Strip Church Cometh To TV
A RELIGIOUS congregation in Las Vegas known as The Strip Church has taken on a project it calls “Brothel Home Makeovers.”
Members go brothel-to-brothel-to-strip-club and offer to redecorate.
Still don’t believe it? Check out the video after the jump.
Spotter: RR
Posted: 22nd, June 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
New Zealand Takes On Wales At Nude Rugby: No.8 Expectant
TO the Nude Rugby Test between the New Zealand All Blacks (mostly All Pink with flashes of ginger) and the Welsh Leeks in Dunedin.
Over 300 hardcore rugger buggers massed in Logan Park to see former All Blacks Richard Loe and John Timu referee a game fought in the true spirit of the game that feature a hooker, up and unders and those balls.
In reports: A streaker, fully-clothed, was escorted from the field by a nude policewoman.
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Posted: 21st, June 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
