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.
Shark Eats Surfing Kangaroo
DANIEL Hurst is walking along a beach near Torquay, Victoria, with his girlfriend.
Says he in the Telegraph: “We were just walking along the beach as a kangaroo came out of the shrub on top of the sand dunes. It just headed down towards the water and in it went.
“I could still see its head, and that’s when the shark leapt out of the water on its side.
“It just got its body out and that was about it. But [it was] clearly a shark. The kangaroo disappeared after that. I stayed around for a while, just very interested, and hoping the shark jumped again, but it never eventuated.”
And Mick Boucher saw it, too. “It was bobbing up and down,” says Mr Boucher said. “It was about 200 yards from shore when the shark struck.”
On Sunday, a kangaroo carcass was found on a nearby beach…
Posted: 14th, December 2007 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Mitchell Spero Trains Pet Turtle To Do Dog Tricks.
MITCHELL Spero has trained his pet turtle to do dog tricks. Florida the turtle can sit, stay, and roll over.
Spero is a psychologist. He uses the turtle to show children how to overcome obstacles, like dealing with divorce.
Says she: “I put a doll on the back of the turtle, and he literally carried her from one house to the other, back and forth. And she finally understood the concept that Mommy was going to have a house and Daddy was going to have a house, and it was OK for her to go back and forth.”
Or half a turtle…
Posted: 9th, December 2007 | In: Strange But True | Comments (4)
Venezuela Makes Its Own Time Zone
IN Venezuela today the clocks go back half-an-hour on a permanent basis.
Says President Hugo Chavez: “I don’t care if they call me crazy, the new time will go ahead.”
The country’s Science and Technology Minister Hector Nacarro agrees: “I see it as a very positive thing that while there is light we can be in it.”
Zones are, of course, all the rage.
Iraq has its green zone. New York has a zero-toelrance zone. South-America was declared a “peace zone” by all South-American Presidents in 2002. Cyprus and the Koreas enjoy demilitarized zones.
London has six zones, moving in ripples from 1 to 6 as your go from the inner zone to the outer zones. Wales has Catherine Zeta Zones and Tom Zones, and Clwyd County Council has declared itself a nuclear free zone.
The Boston Celtics basketball team have zonal defence. Sienna Miller has an erogenous zone. Ireland has Boyzone. Soho has Clone Zone.
Venezuela now has its own zone which should place it on the map and mark it out as a place to be taken seriously…
Posted: 9th, December 2007 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Microsoft’s New Santa Claus Has Been Very Bad
AFTER yesterday’s news that the real Santa Claus is a debauched, drug-crazed sex maniac, it is encouraging to note that Microsoft have embraced this authentic Santa.
As reported on Netweork World (we read it so you don;t have to) an artificial-intelligence Santa “bot” operated by Microsoft to talk to children wavered off message. Says Micro Santa: “It’s fun to talk about oral sex, but I want to chat about something else….”
Says Microsoft: “Yesterday we received reports that the automated Santa Claus agent in Windows Live Messenger used inappropriate language. As soon as we were alerted, we took steps to mitigate the issue, including the removal of language from the agent’s automated script. We were not completely satisfied with the result of these actions, and have decided to discontinue the automated Santa Claus agent.”
Web users got wind of this Sata and logged on.
One person said “…..come on you like big hairy men – don’t hide it!” To which Santa responded, “I know, I know. I just hope you won’t get mad at me.”
Congratulations to Microsoft. As you know, the Santa we see in his red cloak and snowy beard is the product of the Coca Cola brand. Now finally all corporations can have their own Santas and take ownwership of the holiday.
Look out for News International’s Topless Santa, Wal-Mart’s Reduced Santa and Anroajk’s Santa in an Anorak, with flashing parts…
Posted: 7th, December 2007 | In: Strange But True | Comments (9)
Indian Judge Orders Hindu Gods To Appear In Court
JUDGE Sunil Kumar Singh kindly requests the presence of Ram and Hanuman to “appear before the court personally”.
The Hindu gods have been asked to appear before the court in Dhanbad, India, this coming Tuesday. The judge says letters addressed to the gods had gone unanswered.
“Ram and Hanuman are among the most popular Indian Hindu gods,” says the BBC, and accordingly in much demand. Perhaps if they can’t be there in person, Ram and Hanuman can appear in a live satellite link up or on the phone?
Judge Singh wants the gods to help in a 20-year-old dispute on the ownership of a 1.4 acre plot of land housing two temples, where supplicants worship the aforesaid deities.
Temple priest Manmohan Pathak claims the land belongs to him. Locals say it belongs to the two deities.
Anorak would like it on the record that it has owned St Paul’s Cathedral ever since Jesus came to Old Mr Anorak and told him to look after the apcle and do with it as she saw fit. A petition is with the City of London Planning and Strip Club Licensee Office…
Posted: 7th, December 2007 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)
Mata Amritanandamayi Hugs
SAYS the BBC: “When it comes to being tactile, the British are notoriously, well, hands-off. So what leads hundreds of people to travel to a giant hall in London all for a hug?”
Hands off? Every meeting is met with a kiss; men give hugs to other men; the Tube is full of frotters. British men and women are but an alcopop away from coitus by the wheelie bins. The BBC is wrong. Hugs are the norm. Hugs are expected.
Being hugged and petted is what happens. “Give us a hug, love,” is the catchphrase of daytime telly. If Hitler were alive, he’d tell us that if he’d only had a hug it could have been so different. Tony Blair and Cherie embrace. In a bygone age they would have been arrested for gross indecency, but now we wonder why they stop there and don’t have full sex.
Notes the BBC: “Amma, the ‘Hugging Saint’, is in town. And this procession of slightly disoriented passengers are among the crowds making their way to be embraced by her at the north London venue. For 30 years Indian spiritual leader Mata Amritanandamayi, to give her her real name, has been hugging people, leading some to give her a saintly nickname.”
Amma sits on a slightly elevated seat. Strangers come before her, kneeling, and she embraces each as though they were her own flesh and blood.
Time spent with Amma is free and she does not promote any particular faith, being for “all religions and none”. She is said to have dolled out some 26 million hugs, or “darshan”, as the experience is known. Each is counted off with a clicker.
She keeps count… Why? Is this an attempt at a World Record? There’s certainly a book in the making, a guide to hugging with an instructional DVD voiced by Anthea Tuner…
Posted: 6th, December 2007 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Mr John Darwin Panels His Canoe Back To 2002 And All That
“WHERE WAS I FOR 5 YEARS?” asks the Sun’s front-page headline, words hung alongside a picture of Spice Girl Geri Halliwell.
The news story is not of the Spice Girl’s whereabouts, rather of one John Darwin who was thought to have drowned off the coast of Cleveland in 2002 after a canoeing accident.
Say police: “He can’t remember anything about what happened to him. “I think I’m a missing person,” says Mr Darwin as he walks into police station.
The Sun says that at the time of his disappearance, Mr Darwin had run up “huge debts”. It is not known if his life was insured. Or if his wife – who moved to Panama six weeks ago – ever claimed on his death.
“She left the house full of furniture. She left everything. It took them 15 skips to get the rubbish out,” says a former neighbour.
The Times “understands” that Mrs Darwin has “hundreds of thousands of pounds” in a Panamanian bank account.
“My memory’s gone, claims canoeist lost for five years,” says the Express. “Five lost years of the missing canoeist,” says the Mail’s front page. He is the Mirror’s “MR MYSTERY”.
Where has Mr Darwin been? And is there a chance he still thinks it is March 2002?
In which case who will tell him that the Queen Mother has passed away, and that Geri Halliwell is back?
Posted: 4th, December 2007 | In: Strange But True | Comments (12)
The Duck With Three Legs And Other Nature Breakthroughs
IS this the way ahead. First the cat with two faces and now this – the three-legged yellow duckling?
What with talk of global overcrowding, might it be that Mother Nature is pointing to the future?
Why have two pets when you can have one with two heads? You crave 2.4 children – well, now you can have them in one go, and with no need to move house or even buy bunkbeds.
Posted: 27th, November 2007 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Two Women One Cup: Grandmother Ethel McEwan Saved By Ingesting Daughter’s Turds
EARLIER in the week, this video of Two Girls One Cup, and now we learn of a grandmother who contracted a potentially fatal superbug. She was saved by ingesting her daughter’s poo.
Ethel McEwan, an 83-year-old from Scotland, contracted Clostridium Difficile, the Daily Record reports.
But she survived after her daughter Winnifred gave her a “faecal transplant” – a sample turd is liquidised and fed down a tube into the patient’s stomach. The treatment restores bacteria to a level that can aid the recovery process.
“When you tell people about the treatment, they wrinkle their noses,” says Mrs McEwan. “But it’s not like they put it on a plate and have you eat it. You don’t ever see or smell a thing.
“People will have a blood transplant or a kidney transplant – what’s the difference with this?”
Why tell her? What’s to gain?
Posted: 26th, November 2007 | In: Strange But True | Comments (6)
Man Arrested For ‘Bonking’ A BMW
IN recent times, Anorak has found cause to comment on a man who had sex with a bicycle (proven) and another who attempted to romance a fence (alleged).
Having read of Toni Vernelli, sterilised at age 27 to reduce her carbon footprint, we should expect more of the same.
There is much “breathing” in the act of coitus, and it is greener to have sex with non-breathing, inanimate objects – although not rubber dolls, plastic devices or endangered species, such as polar bears.
And now we learn via the Sport’s front page of the man, a “twisted pervert”, who was caught “bonking” a BMW 328i.
Readers learn that the vehicle was “washed down” after Sandy Wong had had his way.
But perhaps not as you may suppose. Mr Wong, of Edmonton, Canada, was found sprawled over the roof, legs dangling by the driver’s side with his trousers about his ankles.
Mr Wong was, in the language of tabloid newspapers, “pleasuring himself”. He was at the region’s Home & Garden show.
In court, it is on the record that Mr Wong is aroused by the 1967 Camaro and the 1995 Chevy Bel Air. Earlier this year, Mr Wong was seen in onanistic pose atop a Mini Copper.
Mr Wong has been sentenced to 90 days in prison. He was driven off to the cells in a police van, his face contorted into what psychiatrists term a “state of euphoric bliss”…
Posted: 26th, November 2007 | In: Strange But True, Tabloids | Comment (1)
Man Accused Of Attempting Sex With A Fence
DANIEL French, 24, is accused of making “sexual motions” towards metal railings in Leicester Square Gardens after being challenged by police.
Anorak listens to goings on at Westminster Magistrates’ Court.
Says Philip Lemoine prosecuting: “He said words to the effect of: ‘I’m going to have sex with that fence.’”
He continues: “The gardens were locked and police asked French to leave. He was drunk and there were some sexual motions – drunken silliness – to the railings.”
Oh…
“French said he had a relative who was a solicitor and would teach the police a lesson.”
French admits to being drunk and disorderly. He contests the allegation that he romanced the fence.
Says Mr French: “That’s not right at all about the fence. I was surrounded by three big police officers. I felt I was being bullied and wanted to go home. They were pushing me against the fence and trying to provoke me.
“The suggestion that I was trying to do something sexual to the railings is disgusting.”
French was sentenced to serve the time he had already spent in custody since his arrest.
Mr French is not believed to have enjoyed his time behind bars, although if drunk and desperate enough he might have…
Posted: 21st, November 2007 | In: Strange But True | Comments (9)
The Cat With Two Mouths, Two Noses And Four Eyes
THE Telegraph invites readers to “Meet the cat with nine lives and two faces”.
We move on and see Lil’Bit – as in “A little bit of love”. Or Lil’Bit extra.
“I started feeding him every 15 minutes from an eye-dropper,” says the cat’s owner.
“I fed him like that for two or three months before starting him on proper cat food.”
The cat has two mouths, two noses and four eyes. Vets believe it may have two brains, “as one face can go to sleep while the other remains awake and it can blink independently on each one.”
Hours of fun…
Posted: 21st, November 2007 | In: Strange But True | Comments (4)
Mr Selvakumar Marries Mrs Selvakumar, A Dog
INDIAN man about town Mr Selvakumar has married a dog in a Hindu ceremony. It is his reward for stoning two other dogs to death.
Not eveyone is so in to dogs. And such things can be fowned upon, shunned even.
But Mr Selvakumar is adamant. He believes he had been cursed for killing the dogs. The marrige is not a reward for Mr Slevakumar, rather a reward for the dog.
As reported, an astrologer told him the only way to remove the curse would be to marry a female dog.
The former stray dog named Selvi now responds to the name Mrs Selvakumar. That’s the blushing bride on the right.
Posted: 13th, November 2007 | In: Strange But True | Comments (18)
Stripper Booked For School Drama Class
YOU join us in the drama class at Arnold Hill School, Nottingham. It is halfway through the lesson, in which pupils are discussing their GCSE coursework. There is a knock at the door.
“Something is about to happen,” says the teacher.
A person enters. It is not the gorilla-suited man, the one a student’s mum has booked to appear, rather a woman. She may even be a between-jobs actress. She is dressed as a policewoman. The skirt is not of regulation length. Mum has asked for it to be filmed.
The woman brings a stereo. She presses a button and the sound of Britney Spears’ paean to domestic abuse fills the hall.
The “birthday boy” is 16. He is fitted with a collar and lead and led around the room on all fours. The woman strips down to her bra and knickers. Cream is rubbed over the boy’s body.
“That’s it. That’s enough,” says the teacher. That’s drama.
Says a spokesman for the school: “There was an incident, we are aware of it, and it is being dealt with.”
Says the Mail: “No pupils have been suspended and police officers are not involved.”
Although, for the right fee, they could be…
Posted: 8th, November 2007 | In: Strange But True, Tabloids | Comments (9)
116-Year-Old Orange Goes On Display
AN orange belonging to Joseph Roberts is on display. Roberts was injured in an explosion at a Stoke-on-Trent colliery in 1891. He died from his injuries. The fruit was unharmed. It has gone on show at the Potteries Museum.
Says Jamie Oliver: “I have seen kids of the ages of four or five, the same age as mine, open their lunchbox and inside is a cold, half-eaten McDonald’s, multiple packets of crisps and a can of Red Bull. We laugh and then want to cry.”
Would the contents of today’s lunchboxes survive detonation? And will our ancestors a century from now be looking at up at a petrified Wotsit in silent awe – ruminating on pieces of dried fruit.
That’s progress for you…
Posted: 30th, October 2007 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)
When Cows Attack: Sussex Man Set Upon
“CALIFORNIA Cows Fail Latest Emissions Test.” It was the global warming wake-up call, as told by National Geographic.
And now we read in the Guardian: “How dangerous are cows?” The Guardian reminds its readers that the domestic cow is descended from the aurochs, a beast that stood nearly 2m tall and was famed for its aggressive demeanour.”
It is either us or the cow. The cow has turned. And Inspector Chris Poole has taken the brunt of the assault.
Inspector Poole says that on a walk across the South Downs earlier this month a cow butted him in the back, forcing him to the ground, before the others joined in.
Indeed, dear readers. We too wondered why Mr Poole’s profession was worthy of note.
Was Inspector Poole on duty at the time, looking, perhaps, for badgers and badger enthusiasts taking in the splendour of the beauty spot?
No, we say. The wounds Inspector Poole carries are not the product of a badger assignation gone awry but the work of bovine hoof and tooth. Know that Mr Poole suffered bruising from his thigh to his shoulder and had cause for concern when one of his broken ribs severed an artery.
Says he: “It was unlucky the cows attacked… it is very rare but obviously it can happen.”
Watch out for the horns – if the gas doesn’t get your first…
Posted: 30th, October 2007 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Man Charged For Having Sex With A Bicycle: Boneshaker Arrested
THERE is no gentle way of saying this: Robert Stewart has been placed on the sex offenders’ register after being caught “trying” to have sex with a bicycle.
Cycle enthusiast Stewart was at the Aberley House Hostel in Ayr, south west Scotland, in October last year. Two cleaners came in.
The rest is so much court testimony as Mr Stewart stands before the Beak at Ayr Sheriff Court and admits to a sexual breach of the peace.
Deputy fiscal Gail Davidson relays the scene: “They [the cleaners] knocked on the door several times and there was no reply. They used a master key to unlock the door and they then observed the accused wearing only a white T-shirt, naked from the waist down. The accused was holding the bike and moving his hips back and forth as if to simulate sex.”
It is not known if Ms Davidson demonstrated this movement. But legal types wishing to re-enact the scene should take care to lock the door and keep a can of WD40 to hand. As recorded: “Here at the Telegraph offices, we have spent much of the afternoon trying to work out the ins and outs of this, so to speak.” Full report to follow.
Mr Stewart has been placed on the sex offenders’ register.
He awaits sentencing and we wonder what punishment should fit the crime? Should the instrument be taken into account? Was the abused bicycle a tandem, a Penny Farthing or a willing and up-for-it boneshaker. If, say it were a child’s trike, we believe Mr Stewart should be stripped naked and hauled across hot tarmac.
Although, this may be less of a punishment than a joy – Anorak recalls the name Karl Watkins, an electrician, jailed for inappropriate sexual contact with pavements in Redditch, Worcs, in 1993.
And we revisit our earlier question and wonder how you can punish a man who has sex with a bike in way that will bring satisfaction to the decent, but no satisfaction to the guilty..?
Posted: 27th, October 2007 | In: Strange But True | Comments (26)
Pet Camel Kills Australian Woman, In A Hump
OVER the newswires: “A woman in Australia has been killed by her pet camel after the animal may have tried to have sex with her.”
Surely when a camel tries to have sex with you there is little room for uncertainty?
As the BBC reports: “The woman had been given the camel as a 60th birthday present earlier this year because of her love of exotic pets.”
We learn that the young camel “had come close to suffocating the family’s pet goat on a number of occasions”.
And then it went for the woman, a resident of Mitchell in Queensland. It knocked her to the ground, lay on top of her and displayed what the police term as “possible mating behaviour”.
“I’d say it’s probably been playing, or it may be even a sexual sort of thing,” says Queensland police Detective Senior Constable Craig Gregory.
More later…
Posted: 21st, October 2007 | In: Strange But True | Comments (4)
Catnapper Sought: Cat Thief Purges Bramley Crescent
THE cats from Bramley Crescent, Southampton, are gone. A portent of doom, or a sign that Christmas is coming and furry gloves will be in high demand?
The Mail journeys to Bramley Crescent and notes that seven cats have gone missing. The owners of six of them have each received a letter. It is a “disturbing and sinister twist”. The missive is from the “person responsible for the disappearance of your cats”.
While the owners appeal for help, contact a PR and David Beckham appeals, we read on.
The letter says the cats have been taken to a remote location and set free. Says cat owner – get his – Ellie Catto: “It makes me so angry that someone feels that they have the right to take our cats like this. In the letter it talks about the cats intruding on ‘my family’ and ‘my garden’ but what about my kids?”
What of them, Mrs Catto, if that is your name? Have they intruded on a neighbouring garden? If they have, Holly, Abigail and Amos had best tread carefully.
The letter goes on: “If you are lucky enough to get your cat back…. The second time they get caught in my garden, THEY WILL BE DESTROYED.”
It’s tough stuff. A villainous act. A desperate act? But do we sympathise with the catnapper? Would you stomach the call of “PUSS PUSS”, “BLACKIE” or the drug-suggestive “TOOTY” as you take an evening gin and tonic on the decking?
How much can a man take?
Posted: 19th, October 2007 | In: Strange But True | Comments (7)
Reinaldo Waveqche Marries 82-Year-Old Adelfa Volpes
REINALDO Waveqche says: “I’ve always liked mature ladies.”
Mr Waveqche has a way with words. While other may call 82-year-old Adelfa Volpes ancient, decrepit and less a woman than an exhibit of dust and ash, he sees only beauty.
“I don’t care what other people say,” says the Argentinian of his new bride.
As reported the couple are planning to travel to Rio de Janeiro for their honeymoon. Says Ms Volpes: “There is going to be more.”
“I am very pleased,” she says. “Reinaldo is marvellous, very good, kind and educated. The age difference has never been important for us.”
Now husband and wife, the couple found love when Mr Waveqche went to live with her after his mother’s death when he was 15.
Neither Wayne Rooney nor Peter Stringfellow have commented on the matter, but both are believed to wish the happy couple a wonderful future…
Posted: 1st, October 2007 | In: Strange But True | Comments (21)
How To Top Up Your Winter Fuel Allowance
WINTER fuel payment insufficient?
Never fear. Joan Hiscock offers a novel way to warm up in the chillier months, and she’ll throw in free lighting and a cremation. Can’t say fairer than that.
You will, though, have to provide your own slippers, such as the woolly moccasins held aloft by Joan in the Sun.
Joan, aged 84, is reported to have enlivened an evening in by placing her slippers beneath a hot grill.
This is no indictment on the Meals On Wheels service, but a way Joan saw fit to warm up her clothing.
And boy did they get warm, catching light and filling her home with warming fire and cosy smoke.
Others in Joan’s sheltered accommodation facility shared in the hearty glow, and warmed up some more when they were encouraged to jog outside and see the fire engines arriving at the scene.
Says Joan: “I put the slippers under the grill to dry them after I had washed them…They set fire to the oven and everyone had to be evacuated. When they found out it was my slippers they were laughing. I’ve learned my lesson.”
Indeed she has. And Joan will be touring the nation advising the chilled and elderly on the best way to be like so much toast…
Posted: 21st, September 2007 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)
The Argentinian Pig That You Can Shear Like A Sheep
THE Sun wants its readers to “Meet the world’s first sheep-hog — a PIG with its own FLEECE.
“Scientists are baffled by the strange swine — which they say is a pig ‘at heart’ but with a woolly hide.
“The one-year-old is being raised on a ranch near the town of Esquina, 400 miles north of Buenos Aires, Argentina.”
Anorak welcomes evolution and hopes one day there will be a one animal-fits-all approach to farming.
With the right genetic input and some tinkering, we are confident scientists and the Swiss Army can produce something truly special.
As local Catriona Martez says: “Bacon and fleece all in one animal! If only there were more like it.”
You can almost hear the Ronald McDonald Winter Breakfast Bap rolling off the production lines…The Japanese Woman Who Mistook Her Sheep For a Poodle
Posted: 15th, September 2007 | In: Strange But True | Comments (85)
Desperate Dwarf Dan Blackner’s Little Fella Gets Hoovered Up
MEET “dopey dwarf” Dan Blackner. And Henry.
Dan and Henry are close. Both feature in the act Captain Dan, The Demon Dwarf. You can catch the show at Edinburgh’s Circus of Horrors.
But not tonight. Because tonight Dan is in the recovery position after a rehearsal for his act went badly awry.
Dan’s act involves him inserting his penis into the vacuum cleaner (Henry) and towing it about the stage.
We join the action as Dan is making his preparations. Dan notices a crack in Henry’s pipe. He repairs it with glue. Strong glue. And after 20 seconds, Dan inserts his penis and discovers that he can become at one with his act. Not since the halcyon days of Leonard, aka Legless Lenny, a teddy boy of 31 years standing has a performer been so in harmony with his ‘puppet’. (Lenny raised money by sitting astride an upturned aeroplane propeller attached to an engine. Once strapped on, he would spin to the sound Danny & The Juniors.)
Dan contacts his manger Dr Haze, who drives him to hospital. Says Dan: “It was the most embarrassing moment of my life. When I was wheeled into a packed A&E with a Hoover attached to my willy I just wished the ground would swallow me up.”
Whoah! First things first, Dan. Start with the Hoover and work your way up. Little steps…
Posted: 21st, August 2007 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Flood Victim Hit By Nasty Bill
POOR old Ben Hallwood, not only did he suffer a rather big scare when his car was submerged during the floods, but he now has to pay a £256 bill for the rather dubious pleasure of it all. (Pic: The Spine)
Hallwood’s BMW 525 Estate was covered by five feet of water after a frightening flash flood raged through Oxon, but luckily, the driver himself was able to escape.
For two days after the flood, Hallwood tried in vain to recover the damaged vehicle using a Land Rover. However, when he went back to the A420 near Shrivenham for a third time, the police had removed it.
The police then proceeded to tell the unfortunate 35-year-old that a local recovery firm had a bill waiting for him, which was rising by £12 a day for storage. Hallwood was eventually forced to cough up the £256 bill but then had to scrap the car after all.
Aircraft electrician Hallwood said: “I had informed police the car was mine, and I would recover it. I wouldn’t have minded if I had deliberately abandoned the vehicle but I was hit by a flash flood. I was luck to get out.”
It’s the spirit of the Blitz all over again.
Posted: 27th, July 2007 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Psychotherapist Had Sex With Patient’s Split Personalities
IF the Swiss Army made wives they would make one like this: “A therapist has been accused of taking advantage of a patient with a split personality – using one of her alter egos for sex, another to be his cleaner and a third to lend him cash for holidays.”
So reports the Mail in a story that will make polygamists sit up and take notice.
We journey to Cologne, German woman, and see Monika Mirte, 44, visit trained psychotherapist Peter Blaeker, 43. She has been diagnosed with multiple personality disorder and requires help to keep “Kathrin”, “Finja” and “Leonie” in check.
Says Miss Mirte: “It is like there is more than one person in my head and when one of the others is in control, I always have no memory of what happened when I return.
“I found out there were certain personalities he favoured, and he used them to fulfil his wishes.
“He used Kathrin for sex and Finja to do the shopping and pay for it, while Leonie gave him money to travel on holidays to Mallorca and Sylt (a popular German tourist island).”
Readers may wonder how Mirte discovered the ruse and if Blaeker billed four times.
But the story goes that she did find out and claims that when she confronted him he refused to comment, saying he had “a duty of confidentiality to her other personalities”.
Miss Mirte’s lawyer, Christine Andrae, tells us: “So far there are numerous leads to show that the therapist made use of my client’s weakness.”
The therapist is not saying much, although there are reports that he was made to do it by Mirte’s domineering friend Eva, a trained psychotherapist…
Posted: 7th, July 2007 | In: Strange But True | Comment
