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.
Lena Paahlsson finds lost wedding ring attached to growing carrot
LENA Paahlsson lost her ring 16 years ago. She’s just found attached to a carrot growing in her garden.
Dagens Nyhete reports that Lena Paahlsson lost her self-designed white-gold band featuring seven small diamonds in Christmas 1995. She says he lost it in the kitchen of her home in Mora, Sweden. Now she’s found it.
Says Ola Paahlsson, Lena’s husband:
“The carrot was sprouting in the middle of the ring. It is quite incredible.”
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Posted: 1st, January 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Dead Hiroyuki Joho sued by woman his body parts injured in train crash
HIROYUKI Joho’s biggest mistake was not dashing in front of a speeding Amtrak train in Chicago to catch his train. Hiroyuki Joho’s biggest mistake was not ensuring that parts of his dismembered body failed to hit bystanders.
As such, Hiroyuki Joho, 18, can be sued for injuries caused by his own body parts – even though he’s dead.
A part of Mr Joho’s body struck 58-year-old Gayane Zokhrabov. She suffered a broken leg and wrist fromt eh resulting fall.
Says her lawyer:
“If you do something as stupid as this guy did, you have to be responsible for what comes from it.”
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Posted: 30th, December 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Saudi Arabian man passes marriage training course
UNCLE Dahhan, 53, is now qualified for marriage. The Saudi has a certificate to prove it.
The Mawadah Welfare Society for Social Reform in Jeddah, says Uncle Dahhan is qualified to marry a woman, having completed a two day training programme.
Now, if he can find a woman who likes it done by the book, he’s in…
Posted: 30th, December 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Midwife Claire Clarke-Wood delivers her own baby
CLAIRE Clarke-Wood, 28, from Hawkhurst, Kent, a midwife at London’s Croydon University Hospital in London, delivered her own baby on her own. At her home. In the bathroom. With a make-up mirror.
Esmay Clarke-Wood was born on 11 December, weighing 6lb 12oz (3.06kg).
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Posted: 29th, December 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
African Bull Frog owns Ant Crusher and pwns owner
Seen the video of the African Bull Frog playing Ant Crusher?
TEENAGERS have the weirdest pets.They buy snakes and tarantulas and the like, because ostensibly, they don’t have a personality. An exotic pet is a reasonable replacement.
Of course, if you’re a lonely teen, you’ll be mad on a variety of video games too. So what happens when these worlds collide?
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Posted: 29th, December 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Pre-op transsexual Kerry Marshall duped bankers into thinking she was Katie Price
WHAT news of Kerry Marshall, the 36E pre-op transsexual previously known as Tyler Meadows who impersonated Katie Price, aka Jordan, to steal thousands of pounds from the model’s bank accounts?
Kerry Marshall, 18, posed as a member of Katie Price’s security to get into the reality TV star’s Sussex home. She obtained details of Price’s bank accounts. Then, dressed in a blonde wig and sunglasses, Marshall went to an HSBC and withdrew £1,000 and £1,500 from the cashier. Furthermore, Marshall used Katie Price’s accounts to buy a Mazda sports car, jewellery and other stuff Katie would never buy.
Price only became aware of the scam when her credit cards were declined.
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Posted: 28th, December 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Incredible Hulk arrested for drugs dealing
MUG Shot of The Day features Scott Anderson, of Radford, Coventry, who was caught selling drugs outside Coventry’s Skydome nightclub. He was, m’lud, dressed as The Incredible Hulk.
At Coventry Crown Court, Anderson’s defence goes on the record to say the accused “couldn’t have stood out more”.
Says Shane Crawford, defending:
“This was a serious lapse on his part, a serious lapse and aside from the comedic element, his dress, he couldn’t have stood out more to police. This was a drunk man seeking to get some money back for a purchase that he had made for himself. It was a drunk attempt to get his money back on his way home. That’s very different from low level street dealing.”
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Posted: 26th, December 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Nodding disease threatens Uganda’s Brussels Sprouts farmers
TO northern Uganda, where ‘nodding syndrome’ is striking down the locals. Reports are of children and adolescents nodding violently when they eat food.
What can trigger the disease.? Minds turn at once to Brussels Sprouts. Your child is not sat before the now stone cold veg rocking backwards and forwards while emitting huge wet sobs because they are being ‘bloody minded’ and ‘ungrateful’. They are ill. Also do not threaten to send them to the starving children of Africa. They don’t want them.
One other theory is that the disease is triggered by a parasitic worm responsible for river blindness.
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Posted: 26th, December 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Spanish model hid cocaine in big false breasts and buttocks implants
THE Spanish model with the generous boobage and bumage walking through Rome airport has 2.5kilograms of neat cocaine hidden in her false breasts and buttock implants. She is wearing tight clothes to accentuate her figure.
The uniformed Italians not only spot her but call her over for a frisk.
The woman, who arrived on a flight from Sao Paulo, Brazil, might have gotten away with in Holland or Tokyo. But in Italy, she never stood a chance. Her goose was cooked.
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Posted: 23rd, December 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Jealous penguins throw poo at panda mad Edinburgh Zoo
PENGUINS are tossing poo at the punters at Edinburgh Zoo. The Rockhopper penguins are on Corstorphine Hill, a spot that offers them a clear view of the pandas. Have the pandas upset the penguins? Is this a monochrome batter for supremacy in an abundant zoo? Are the penguins siding with Norwegian fishermen?
These are strange times, indeed.
Gary Wilson, Edinburgh Zoo’s director of business operations, tells the BBC:
“Our rockhopper penguins in particular have been watching the events at the panda enclosure below with great interest, ever since work started on the enclosure… Onee or two of our rockhoppers seem to have had surprisingly good aim. We’re just looking into a solution right now, probably in the form of a glass panel so that the visitors’ view of the penguins isn’t obscured.”
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Posted: 22nd, December 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Jesus appears in melted and frozen Crayola crayons
JESUS has appeared in a packet of melted Crayola crayons.
Tara Gomez and her son melted crayons in the oven. They then placed the crayons in the freezer. When they retrieved the frozen crayons 15 minutes later there was Jesus in a child-friendly icon.
Says Gomez:
“I was looking at it like, ‘Am I crazy?’ I am seeing things?”
She adds:
“I’d been praying and praying about certain things, and I asked God for a sign and I think the crazy thing about this, and I dunno, what better sign to get then right in front of you.”
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Posted: 21st, December 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Wayne Mitchell dies after eating cocaine stored in his brother Deangelo’s bum
WAYNE Mitchell, 20, died after he ate the ounce of cocaine previously stored by his brother Deangelo Mitchell’s backside.
The brothers Mitchell had been arrested by South Carolina police on suspicion of possessing drugs. Deangelo Mitchell, 23, had hidden the stash up his bum. In the back of the police car. big brother Deangelo persuaded Wayne to eat the evidence. Big brothers always know best.
The negotiation was caught on camera.
Deangelo has been released a bond – and he might be charged with involuntary manslaughter.
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Posted: 21st, December 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)
Police recruitment poster model is a ‘thief’
TO Hamburg, where the police have hired a model to be the face of a new €50,000-recruitment campaign. The odd things is that the face of the Hamburg police force is a thief recognised by a man who claims he stole money from him in August 2011.
Hamburg police spokesman Mirko Streiber says the posters are “being scrapped and the search for a new model is underway”.
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Posted: 21st, December 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Body modified Santa get horns and a nose job (photos)
KIDS. Don’t be afraid. Santa has to move with the times, that’s all. Sure, Santa Claus now has flared nostrils, hors and spikes in his ace, but underneath that he’s the same dear old loveable mummy kissing ball of gifts he always was. Nighty night… Be good. And if you can;t be good, lock your bedroom door…
Posted: 19th, December 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Mug Shot Of The Year: Korin Vanhouten goes cosmic
MUG Shot of The Day – and possibly of the year (compare and contrast) features the face of 47-year-old Korin Vanhouten, who along with Eldon Alexander, 36, has been arrested for shoplifting. While Vanhouten (any distinguishing features, officer?) and Alexander were being questioned by the police at WinCo Foods in Ogden, Utah, someone broke into their car and took a stereo, ciggies and a ..drum machine.
Having been released by the police, the shoplifters then flag down a police car to report ther break in to their own vehicle.
You, of course, want to know what was shoplifted. Well, Alexander and Vanhouten were caught stealing makeup, energy bars and batteries. All three may well explain the look of cosmic shock on Vanhouten’s face.
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Posted: 19th, December 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Severn Trent water showcases teeth lost down toilets
THE people at Severn Trent’s sewage treatment works in Monkmoor, Shrewsbury, have showcased a job lot of dentures recovered in the system. You can see all the teeth here.
But how do teeth get into the system? The company suggests they fall down plugs holes. But surely U-bends would catch them. The answer seems to be that the false teeth fall down toilets while the owner’s head is hanging over the bowl. This is not a failure of plumbing, rather one of glue and the ability to handle you chicken tikka masala.
Also, would you want the teeth back?
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Posted: 18th, December 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Jyoti Amge photos: world’s shortest woman
THE Guinness World Records says that Jyoti Amge, 18, is the shortest woman in the world.
Jyoti Amge, previously the world’s shortest teenager, is 62.8cm (24.7in) tall. She is a full is 7cm shorter than the previous record holder Bridgette Jordan.
Jyoti Amge, of Nagpur, India, has a condition called achondroplasia, a kind of dwarfism.
She tells media:
“It is wonderful to celebrate my 18th birthday with a new world record, it’s like an added birthday present. I feel grateful to be this size, after all if I weren’t small and had not achieved these world records I might never have been able to visit Japan and Europe, and many other wonderful countries.”.
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Posted: 17th, December 2011 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment
Drugs dealers smuggle cocaine in Swastikas
Posted: 17th, December 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Manchester United fan floods French villa in failed seduction
ANYONE know the name of the 31-year-old British Manchester United fan who broke into a home in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, Nice, and attempted the fill the roof-top pool with water only to fail and flood the property?
The story goes that the romantic was attempting to woo an American woman. Before filling the pool – and the house – with water with outside showers and garden hoses, our hero chilled the champagne, lit candles, sprinkled rose petals round a bed, erected a black pirate flag, and pinned to the walls images of Winnie the Pooh and Manchester United.
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Posted: 16th, December 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Minnesota school gives students an incest practical
MINNESOTA school Rosemount High – now twinned with schools in Motherwell – has been encouraging mums and dads to get off their children. The children at the pep rally (for what? the web-footed swim team?) are blindfolded. The loving mums and dad are not.
City Pages reports:
Footage of the assembly shows a scene that would make even Sigmund Freud cringe. Dads kissing daughters. Mothers kissing sons.
And these are not just innocent pecks on the lips. The parents are intimately lip-locking their children for several seconds. One even progresses to rolling around on the gym floor. In another instance, a mother moves her son’s hand south so he’s grasping her butt.
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Posted: 15th, December 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Man Urinates Public Hairs: Murad Mulla Has An Itch
MURAD Mulla, 48, can urinate hair. When Mr Mulla, of Ratnagiri, India, begane feeling listless he saw his doctor, who diagnosed “urine retention“. Mulla soon ended up in the state-run St George Hospital. Surgery was performed. During the urethroplasty – a procedure to open the urethra opening – the surgeons took a hairy patch of skin from Mulla’s scrotum. (Skin from the mouth is better.)
Says Mulla:
“This is when, to my horror, I found out that pubic hair had started growing inside my body… He [the doctor] injected chemicals inside my body through the penis saying it would take care of the problem. But these were all temporary solutions.”
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Posted: 15th, December 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Baby Seal Breaks Into Home And Watches TV On Sofa: Photos
A CUTE as hell baby seal has flopped though Annette Swoffer’s front-door cat flap and cuddled up on the sofa at her Bay of Plenty home in New Zealand.
As she says:
“I was in my office and I heard an awful racket down below… I thought the cats have brought a rabbit or something in so I went down and had a look – and there’s a seal in my kitchen. I thought ‘I’m hallucinating, this is just wrong’. I’m looking and I’m definitely seeing flippers and not paws.”
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Posted: 14th, December 2011 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment (1)
Manchester Man Swore St Police After Anger Management Therapy
PHILIP Croft, 40, was returning from a court-ordered anger-management session in Manchester when police pulled him over for speeding. (Croft had attacked someone and was ordered to attend therapy sessions to curb his temper.)Says District judge Mark Hadfield told Croft:
“There’s a certain irony that on your way back from an anger-management session you behaved like this with a police officer.”
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Posted: 13th, December 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Austrian Teenager Burgles Grandparents House Twice: Steals Gold Bar And Lots Of Cash
TO Bad Vigaun, near Salzburg, Austria, where a 15-year-old Austrian girl has been stealing from her grandparents.
On November 24, the teen and some friends broke into the house – granny and grandpa were on holiday – and stole 75 euros. They bought a load of booze and had a party. The girl’s uncle heard the noise and broke it up.
Three days later, Little Black Thieving Hood returned with her 17-year-old boyfriend. And they took – get this: €9,300 in cash, jewellery, a gold bar and coin collections.
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Posted: 12th, December 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Tommaso The Second Richest Cat In The World Lives 37 Lives On €10m Fortune
TOMMASO is the world’s second richest Tom cat, second only to Prince Harry in the litter tray stakes.
It was Tommaso’s cunning plan to be adopted off the streets of Rome by childless widow Maria Assunta, an ancient woman who has just died aged 94. Scratched into her will by a long nail dipped in what looks and smells like cabbage water is details for her €10 million fortune to go to Tommaso.
Tomasso no longer has a cat flap in the door – he has a porter dressed a Jerry Mouse to open the thing and then shut it on his own fingers. Tommaso loves slapstick.
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Posted: 11th, December 2011 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment
