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.
Fishing on Arthunkal beach, India, is easy
TO Arthunkal beach, India, for the annual arrival of the lemming fish. You can’t help but wonder what force is pushing the fish towards the beach? Bigger fish? Officer-class fish reenacting the Charge of the Light Brigade? The Tesco ranchers rounding up the new breed of GM seahorse?
Posted: 22nd, April 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Ohio woman is ‘too fat to tan’
Posted: 21st, April 2013 | In: Strange But True, The Consumer | Comments (2)
Vacuum Cat is here to terrify you
BECAUSE cats are utterly terrifying, here’s video of a cat learning to talk to the wind:
Spotter: Tastefully Offensive
Posted: 20th, April 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Two-tonne bell falls on man, just like in the cartoons
THERE are a number of injuries suffered in cartoons that would be unbearable agony in real life. How funny would it be to see a loved one getting hit by an anvil? Would you laugh if someone hit you repeatedly in the face in a bid to turn your teeth into piano keys? How about watching a man fall to his death while dressed in an Acme bird costume?
While all these things would be gut-wrenching to watch, sometimes, it does end in mild, but amusing peril.
Take for example, a man who had a two-tonne bell fell on top of him at a temple. Lin Wang was visiting with a friend that decided he was going to frantically ring the bell while his mate was standing underneath it.
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Posted: 19th, April 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Men deported for being too good-looking
HANDSOME people have dreadful lives don’t they? All those sexual advances, grooming and deportation! You’re querying the latter? Well, that’s what happened to three fellas from the UAE who were whisked away from a festival in Saudi Arabia for apparently being ‘too good-looking’.
Janadriyah – an annual shindig in Riyadh – was temporarily stopped on Sunday while these three devilishly handsome men were escorted from the event.
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Posted: 19th, April 2013 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | Comment (1)
American etiquette: naked man eating cherry tomatoes with frozen sausage in pants wows shoppers
Posted: 18th, April 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Drunk Australian’s attracted to crocodiles (and the Queen’s biscuit tin?)
TWO stories from Australia about drunken men an crocodiles.
In Australia’s Northern Territory, three men high on hooch refused to budge when their brand new Toyota Troop Carrier four-wheel-drive got stuck in the middle of a crocodile-infested creek at Cahill’s Crossing on the road from Gunbalanya to Jabiru . Police pulled them free. Then arrested them all when no-one would own up to being the driver.
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Posted: 18th, April 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Carlo the orangutan steals the shirt off your back and puts it on (video)
CARLO the orangutan lives at crocodile Park, Davao city. In this video, Carlos takes the T-shirt from a visitor’s back and puts it on. But he’s a bit of wally is Carlo. He puts it on inside out. D’oh!
Posted: 17th, April 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
On girl two nostrils: the condom challenge
THE Condom Challenge is about making your own entertainment. The Condom Challenge involves snorting a condom up your nose and pulling it out of your mouth. If you can pull it out full, you win.
Spotter: The Daily What
Posted: 16th, April 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
In 1970, the Fairfax County Bunny Man was terrorising the locals
THEY never did find the Bunny Man who was terrorising resident in Fairfax County, Virginia. On Oct. 22, 1970, the Washington Post, reported:
Fairfax County police said yesterday they are looking for a man who likes to wear “white bunny rabbit costume” and throw hatchets through car windows. Honest.
Air Force Academy Cadet Robert Bennett told police that shortly after midnight last Sunday he and his fiancee were sitting in a car in the 5400 block of Guinea Road when a man “dressed in a white suit with long bunny ears” ran from the nearby bushes and shouted: “You’re on private property and I have your tag number.”
The “Rabbit” threw a wooden-handled hatchet through the right front car window, the first-year cadet told police. As soon as he threw the hatchet, the “rabbit” skipped off into the night, police said. Bennett and his fiancee were not injured.
Police say they have the hatchet, but no other clues in the case. They say Bennett was visiting an uncle, who lives across the street from the spot where the car was parked. The cadet was in the area to attend last weekend’s Air Force-Navy football game.”
Posted: 15th, April 2013 | In: Flashback, Strange But True | Comment (1)
Man waved vibrating phallic device at truckers in an attempt to get a date
LOVE can be a hard game. For a man in Port Townsend, Washington, it’s criminal. He was waving a vibrating phallic device at truck drivers in an attempt to get a date:
Posted: 15th, April 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Pigeon flies into Dunblane window – leaves perfect imprint
FACE of the day: A view of a kitchen window at the house of Stuart Milligan in Dunblane, after a pigeon crashed into it, leaving a ‘grease’ imprint clearly showing the outline of its head, body and wings. Who knew that feral pigeons are greasier than a fried chicken dinner? Well, the people at the takeaway where you get your emergency alcohol-fulled eats obviously do. Yum!
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Posted: 14th, April 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Car accident victim only able to recall other driver’s breasts
TO Upper Haight, San Francisco, where the victim of a car shunt is helping police. The man is unable to tell police the make and model of the car that hit his vehicle and then drove off. He is unable to recall the licence plate. He does, however, recalls that the female driver had breasts.
Says Park Station Police Capt. Greg Corrales:
“The victim was able to describe the suspect as having a low cut dress. He was “able to give a detailed description of the suspect’s cleavage.”
No one has been arrested.
Photo: The Takata airbag modelled into a big inflatable bum / cleavage.
Posted: 13th, April 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Your dead gran, recycled into road signs
PEOPLE who say old-folks are useless clearly are idiots aren’t they? For a start, old people are the main source of institutionalised racism and without pensioners, the makers of fig rolls would go out of business overnight. Pensioners are so useful that they even help us all when they’re dead.
The steel hips, plates and screws from legs and skulls can be collected after they’re cremated and the metal is sent off for recycling, used by automobile and aeronautical industries.
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Posted: 12th, April 2013 | In: Reviews, Strange But True, Technology | Comment
Filming a child being terrified by a sheep for laughs
WHEN a young child is under attack from a sheep, you need to laugh along and keep filming.
Those Other Parents really are crap.
Spotter: b3ta
Posted: 12th, April 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Fast food joints! Beware the headless driver! (video)
IMAGINE you worked for a burger chain and someone drove into the drive-thru… without a head. Would your blood chill to icy levels or would years of watching schlocky b-movies make you laugh like a drain (or attack them with a flame-thrower)?
Well, one chap got to find out and the answer, generally speaking, is a mixture of screaming and bemusement. Humans, it seems, are not at all equipped to deal with the paranormal in a profound way.
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Posted: 11th, April 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Man used human poo to mask smell of his marijuana farm
Posted: 11th, April 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Man puts live eel up his bum, with predictable results
WE’VE all read the stories about bizarre sex, like the guy in Spain who got killed by a rockslide while forcing himself onto a chicken, or indeed, the vicar who was hanging some curtains up and ‘fell on a potato’ so hard it got stuck up his bum.
Well, we’ve got another strange tale for you, this time, involving a live eel.
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Posted: 10th, April 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Shiva is reincarnated as a huge pumpkin
IN Bokaro, Jharkhand, the Hindu god Shiva has been reincarnated as an 87kg pumpkin.
The divine pumpkin can be seen at the Dundibagh vegetable market. Umesh Kumar, who found the vegetable, is delighted:
“Seeing it, I had an intuition that it is Lord Shiva. The pumpkin is oval in shape similar to a ‘Shiva Linga’. So I worship the pumpkin and offered it garlands and sweets.”
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Posted: 10th, April 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Seven-metre-long wasp nest found in home
TO San Sebastián de la Gomera in the Canary Islands to see the seven-metre-long wasp nest, home to millions of wasps.How the owner managed to care for so many pets is a marvel.
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Posted: 10th, April 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Man buying two poodles takes home ferrets on steroids
TO Argentina, where the dog lover has discovered that the two poodles he bought are actually fluffed-up ferrets on steroids. He only discovered the truth when he took them to the vets for their vaccinations. It turned out that steroids had been used to make the ferrets grow and lots of combing had fashioned them to look like pedigree poodles.
An investigation revealed that a woman looking for a chihuahua had also bought a ferret.
Posted: 9th, April 2013 | In: Strange But True, The Consumer | Comment (1)
Arsenal: Arsene Wenger gets help from aliens
GOOD news for Arsenal fans. Cosmic powers are guiding Arsene Wenger. Stephany Cohen, 52, a former policewoman of Bromley, London, says alien races – Grays, Cat People and the half-reptile, half-alien Reptilians (but not Stan Kroenke) – are helping Britain’s economy:
“The people of Britain need not be too down – Reptilians are helping. They are working with people’s minds, in the background, to steer the economy in the right direction. It is a very bad time for everyone but recovery will happen in its own time, at the right time.”
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Posted: 5th, April 2013 | In: Sports, Strange But True | Comment
Man says dangerous driving was result of listening to drum and base
CAN you get “high on drum and bass“?
Police spotted professional driver Aaron Cogley motoring through Bristol. He drifted about the streets, crawling through two red red traffic lights and cutting up traffic. His vehicle was “rocking on the chassis”. Police pulled him over. He was breathalysed. And gave a zero reading for alcohol. He had no drugs.
At Bristol Crown Court, Cogley, 25, pleaded guilty to dangerous driving.
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Posted: 5th, April 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Lamb born with five legs (photo)
THE Whitehouse Farm Centre in Morpeth is delighted to announce the birth of Quinto, a five-legged lamp. Quinto was born to mother Gloria.
Says our man in Tesco: “I’d like to see a horse do that.”
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Posted: 4th, April 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
