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.
Who stole Snowy the inflatable snowman from Wicklow Town?
WHO stole Snowy the inflatable 60-foot tall showman from the roof of a building in Wicklow Town, Ireland, last week? It’s back now. The thieves returned it. The accompanying note, believe to have been written by the thieves and not Snowy, says “I’m sorry”.
Martina Robinson from the town’s chamber of commerce says “the police had been checking the inflatable snowman for fingerprints“.
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Posted: 6th, December 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Man blinded by vodka, revived by whisky
DRINKING yourself blind is an astonishing feat in itself, but to drink your eyesight away and then have it revived by even more booze is quite another.
And that’s exactly what happened to Denis Duthie from New Zealand… although, not quite in the way you’d imagine. Duthie swigged vodka but found that he had suddenly gone blind after it reacted with his diabetes meds. Duthie had been celebrating his parents’ wedding anniversary by having a few vodkas from a bottle that he’d been given as a gift.
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Posted: 5th, December 2012 | In: Strange But True, The Consumer | Comment
South Africa’s ‘Thighs of a Virgin’ school protests name change
TO South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province, where KwaZulu-Natal Education MEC Senzo Mchunu wants 15 schools renamed.
Why? Well, take the KwaZulu-Natal school called Mathangetshitshi. That’s Zulu for “thighs of a virgin“. It was so called in honour of Chief Nhleko, “whose thighs were admired by local residents“.
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Posted: 5th, December 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Hannah Sabata made a YouTube video of her bank robbery
VILLAIN of the Year is Hannah Sabata, 19, of Stromsburg, who boasted about robbing a bank in Waco, Nebraska. She made a YouTube video about her joy at stealing from Cornerstone Bank branch in Waco on Nov. 27 after stealing a car in York.
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Posted: 5th, December 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Plans to open alien autopsy centre in Brighton
PHIL Lucas has been walking about a freezing Brighton photographing planning applications. More on his site.
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Posted: 2nd, December 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Unicorn found in North Korea
Lair of King Tongmyong’s Unicorn Reconfirmed in DPRK
Pyongyang, November 29 (KCNA) — Archaeologists of the History Institute of the DPRK Academy of Social Sciences have recently reconfirmed a lair of the unicorn rode by King Tongmyong, founder of the Koguryo Kingdom (B.C. 277-A.D. 668).
The lair is located 200 meters from the Yongmyong Temple in Moran Hill in Pyongyang City. A rectangular rock carved with words “Unicorn Lair” stands in front of the lair. The carved words are believed to date back to the period of Koryo Kingdom (918-1392).
Jo Hui Sung, director of the Institute, told KCNA:
“Korea’s history books deal with the unicorn, considered to be ridden by King Tongmyong, and its lair. The Sogyong (Pyongyang) chapter of the old book ‘Koryo History’ (geographical book), said: Ulmil Pavilion is on the top of Mt. Kumsu, with Yongmyong Temple, one of Pyongyang’s eight scenic spots, beneath it. The temple served as a relief palace for King Tongmyong, in which there is the lair of his unicorn. The old book ‘Sinjungdonggukyojisungnam’ (Revised Handbook of Korean Geography) complied in the 16th century wrote that there is a lair west of Pubyok Pavilion in Mt. Kumsu. The discovery of the unicorn lair, associated with legend about King Tongmyong, proves that Pyongyang was a capital city of Ancient Korea as well as Koguryo Kingdom.”
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Posted: 2nd, December 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Toronto man charged with pretending to use witchcraft
WITCHCRAFT is real? Maybe. The Toronto judiciary has charged Gustavo Valencia Gomez, 40, of Mississauga, with breaking Section 365 of the Criminal Code, which prohibits anyone pretending to “exercise or to use any kind of witchcraft, sorcery, enchantment or conjuration.”
Is the law there to protect genuine sorcerers?
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Posted: 30th, November 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Man builds ark to escape apocalypse, like you do
MENTAL people think there’s an apocalypse coming because some Mayans forgot to finish making their calendars. And one insane guy in China is currently making an ark to escape the Mayan apocalypse because, obviously, if the world ends and the Four Horsemen come, you’ll be fine if you’re sat inside a conspicuous giant boat filled with hooting animals.
Lu Zhenghai, presumably a normally lovely chap, has spent £100,000 on his ark so far. And it stands at 65 feet and is his completely pointless safeguard against a flood that inevitably won’t happen.
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Posted: 30th, November 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Teacher killed rabbits with a hammer in a classroom
TO Milan, where anatomy teacher Carlo Rando has been jailed for eight months for killing of two rabbits in a classroom. When two of a batch of rabbits served up for a lesson in dissection proved to be alive, Rando killed them in front of the class.
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Posted: 30th, November 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Vampire warning sees garlic sales rocketing in Serbia
VAMPIRES don’t exist. We all know that. Even stupid people have an inkling that vampires aren’t real. However, in Serbia, they do things a bit differently and by that, what we’re saying here is that they absolutely believe in vampires and garlic growers are thrilled at the news!
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Posted: 29th, November 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Man cleaning underpants with industrial air pump inflates when hose hits his anus
TO China, where a 26-year-old man cleaning his underpants with an industrial strength air pump slipped. This caused the pressurised air to enter his backside. The man says he didn’t “feel anything special” when the hose slipped towards his anus. But then he felt a sharp pang.
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Posted: 28th, November 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comments (5)
Ex-lover fined $105,761.81 for car ex-lover illegally parked
Posted: 28th, November 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Parents name their child Hashtag Jameson
A COUPLE – the Twitters? – have named their newborn child Hashtag Jameson. The chid was born last Saturday evening.
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Posted: 27th, November 2012 | In: Strange But True, Technology | Comment
Telford man sentenced after causing ‘terror by dildo’
IMAGINE you heard about a man concealing a dildo about his person. You’d imagine he was either embarrassed to have it on him as something of a prude or, indeed, that he had it down his trolleys in a bid to appear that he was well endowed.
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Posted: 27th, November 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
School names sponsored emu Spazzie McGee
WHEN kids name animals, you get an emu living in Tasmania called Spazzie McGee – “Proudly sponsored by Havenview Primary School.”
Makes you proud…
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Posted: 27th, November 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Good old Germany finally outlaws having sex with animals… but not without opposition
HAVING sex with an animal is pretty much universally frowned upon. It doesn’t matter how much you sexualise your cat on Instagram, you know you’re not actually allowed to make love to its tiny undercarriage. Besides, it’d probably smell like tinned meat.
That all taken into consideration, it may surprise you that Germany is only just getting round to banning all forms of bestiality by law.
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Posted: 26th, November 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Man lay dead in Surrey bookmaker’s toilet for four or five days
THE National Bad Toilet of the Year award 2012 goes to…the Coral bookmakers in Stanwell, Surrey, where a body lay for four or five days without being noticed. The body of 39-year-old Marc Smithers could have been in the toilets for days.
Keith Clark, 55, from St Mary’s Close in Stanwell, tells Get Surrey:
“If the door had been kicked in on Thursday night, he might still be alive. If it turns out he died between Friday and Sunday, there’s going to be big problems. The family is going to be completely devastated that he was in there for four or five days.”
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Posted: 25th, November 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Foreign-looking thief shouted ‘potatoes’ and ‘potatoes’ before pickpocketing Dorking shoppers
DO you know who stole from Hilary Brown’s 90-year-old father and 88-year-old stepmother? The couple wer shopping in Sainsbury’s on Dorking High Street when the felon struck. He was “jumping up and down” and shouting. Mrs Brown says:
“He had a strange voice, it could have been foreign. He was white with fair hair, a stocky build and aged between late 30s and early 40s. He came up to my father and distracted him by jumping up and down and saying ‘potatoes, potatoes’ and ‘swedes’, saying all these vegetable names. My father thought ‘you’re a bit strange’ but thought nothing of it and carried on shopping.
“But later they were round in another section of the shop and he came up to them again and did the same to my stepmother and started pushing my father. Later my father realised that his wallet had been taken out of his back pocket and my stepmother’s purse had been taken out of her handbag, which was in her bag hanging on the back of the trolley. He must have unzipped her bag, taken it and zipped it back up.”
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Posted: 25th, November 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Dundee man charged with ‘recklessly producing household electricity’
DUNDEE man Charles McKenzie, 55, has been charged with “recklessly producing household electricity”.
That’s a fabulous name for a crime, isn’t it? It tops the crimes of “furious driving” and “embracery” (attempting to influence a jury by promises, persuasions, entreaties, entertainments, and the like).
At Dundee Sheriff Court, it is alleged that Mr McKenzie created a “dangerous transformer assembly” at his flat in Dundee’s Dudhope Court to generate power. It is allrged that he acted “with total disregard for the safety of yourself and others”.
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Posted: 23rd, November 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Cambridge police offer their compliments to burglary victim
“Is it entirely appropriate to inform us of a burglary of our properly on a ‘With Compliments’ slip?”
“Hello, Your neighbour [redacted name] has reported to police his property has been broken into and yours has too. Please call the police on 101 to report this.”
Posted: 23rd, November 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Say hello to the Bigfoot of Tunbridge Wells
BORING places are always the ones who have fantastical creatures. There’s no Chupacabra of Camden or Mothra of Manchester, because people are far, far too busy to sit around and let their minds play tricks on them. However, in Dullsville, there’s a whole universe of weird creatures!
Remember the Beast of Bodmin? You’ve heard of Nessie? Well, the residents of Royal Tunbridge Wells – who have nothing better to do – claim they have a giant ape-like sasquatch terrorising their countryside.
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Posted: 22nd, November 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Police hunt man who wiped poo on women in Ramsbottom pub
THIS is a new one on us. Police are searching for a man who has been wiping poo on middle-aged women drinking in Ramsbottom’s The Oaks pub.
The man, aged 45 to 50 and around 5ft 8in to 6ft tall, has been spotted on CCTV (see photo).
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Posted: 21st, November 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comments (4)
So. You got a car key stuck in your foot (photos)
HOW do you get a car key stuck into your foot during karate class? Are you fending off an attack or showboating anew way to disable the alarm? It;s unclear. The photos of the aftermath are more in focus:
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Posted: 21st, November 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Milwaukee police officer takes out water squiring clown (video)
AMERICAN TV news presents the clown v cop fight. American TV news is formular-driven eye gum. The telegenic faces – those aquiline noses; that presidential hair; those cleavages; just WOW! – deliver facts on anything with an absurd sense of drama. This following news segment is about a fight between a copper an a clown. In this case the polished newscaster performances (they think they’re auditioning for daytime soap, don’t they?) makes the ridiculousness of the story and its delivery more pronounced. It’s TV gold:
Posted: 20th, November 2012 | In: Strange But True, TV & Radio | Comment
