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NOTE: Just got this in an email this morning. Verrrry innnteresting! :D


Weird Stories of the Year - 2005

These are some of the strange, weird and wacky stories of 2005:

A taxi driver in Dallas, Texas, was prosecuted for sprinkling dried faeces on pastries in a grocery shop. Customers had complained that the fresh-baked items smelled and tasted like manure. [ Um ... how did the customers know what "manure" tastes like??? ]

A 29-year-old woman in the UK admitted that she had not washed her hair in 11 years. [ Can you say "hygenically challenged" boys and girls? ]

A traffic warden slapped a parking ticket on a car which had its dead driver slumped at the wheel outside a shopping mall in Sydney, Australia. The warden failed to notice the man inside and issued the parking fine two days before the body was discovered. [ Talk about "unconscious!" ]

Odd fish with human faces caused a sensation in South Korea. They were actually mutants born of carp and leather carp - but they looked really scary and spooky. [ "Harold! You finally learned to swim!" :D ]

A straying couple in Jordan both started sizzling affairs in cyberspace. But the bad news for both is they found out they were married to each other. [ Poetic justice? ]

A British bank had to apologise to a customer after they sent him a debit card bearing the name "Mr Dick Head". Very embarrassingly for the card owner, he did not spot the mistake until he tried to buy something at a supermarket. [ Clerk: "Uh ... sir? Did your parents not like you or something? ]

A parcel that vibrated and made strange noises sparked off a bomb alert in a German post office. Workers contacted the owner, who was forced to explain the contents - they turned out to be an inflatable sex doll. [ ROFLMAO!! "Care to explain this, Mr. Hermann? Ordering explosive sex dolls, are we?" ]

A cat chewed the toes off the right foot of an elderly woman with senile dementia while she was asleep at a home for the aged in Japan. Workers found the 88-year-old woman bleeding from her feet, with all the toes missing from her right foot. Paw prints of a cat were found on the floor of the room. [ ICK! This is almost as bad as the story about ants eating a woman's eyes while she was in the hospital in India! ]

A giant 13-foot (3.9m) python exploded after attacking and attempting to eat an alligator. Rangers in the Everglades National Park, Florida, found the snake lying dead with the 6-foot (1.6m) alligator protruding from its middle. [ Revenge from beyond the grave! Mwahaha! ]

Dog lovers mourned the death of Sam, the world's ugliest dog. Sam became a celebrity after winning an ugly pet contest in the US twice. When Sam died, its owner said: "I don't think there'll ever be another Sam. Some people might think that's a good thing." [ Did you see pictures of this dog? OMG! He gave an entirely new meaning to the word "ugly!" ]

A sparrow nearly ruined a world record attempt at dominoes when it flew in through an exhibition centre window and knocked down 23,000 tiles. Organisers shot the little bird, causing an outcry. As a tribute, the bird's body will be displayed in a museum. [ Stoopid damned bird! ;) ]

A court in Ontario acquitted a man of sexual assault charges because he suffered from "Sexsomnia" and was, as he claimed, asleep at the time of the incident. [ Yeah. RIGHT! LOL! ]

A straying couple in Jordan both started sizzling affairs in cyberspace. But the bad news for both is they found out they were married to each other. [ Poetic justice? ]


Not as funny as that French guy who had an internet affair with someone who turn out to be his mother.

There was a thread on it a while ago.

Florida seems to especially prevalent with bizarre news, enough to write three books about it.

From http://edition.cnn.com/2005/US/12/31/weird.florida.ap/index.html :


Florida did indeed have scores of weird stories in 2005, from the woman who concealed a stolen parrot in her bra to a beagle puppy that was trained to sniff out pythons to a Key West man who robbed a bank with a pitchfork.

The beagle, which was put to use in the Everglades, probably wasn't such a bad idea after the number of snake incidents last year.

One Burmese python swallowed a Siamese cat, another slithered into a poultry shack and ate a turkey before getting stuck inside because of the bulging bird and yet another tried to devour a 6-foot alligator before the ambitious effort caused the 13-foot snake to burst.

Other animals also met unusual ends.

A woman was afraid her neighbor's Chihuahua was going to attack her, so she shot and killed it. In Flagler County, an off-duty reserve sheriff's deputy saved a cat by fatally shooting the dog that was chasing it.

A Jacksonville man, though, learned it's not a good idea to joke about dead pets. He taunted his wife over the loss of their dog. She took an ornamental sword from above the fireplace and stabbed him through his arm.

In another Jacksonville story, a robber swinging a samurai sword sent condiments flying at a restaurant before stealing $32 from diners.

A few dumb criminals made the news.

A man suspected of burglarizing a massage therapy business was arrested after he returned to the scene looking for his missing wallet. Two thieves stole an employee's car at a Pensacola-area gas station, then returned an hour later to fill up. They were arrested.

Another man didn't think through a scheme to end his marriage. He showed his wife a Utah man's wallet and said it was a hitchhiker he picked up and murdered. After a massive search for the body, police learned that the billfold's owner was fine and the suspect confessed he made up the story to get his wife to leave him.

Now here's a tip for parents: If you ask your teenage son to help you steal a dishwasher and stove from the house next door, don't be surprised if he calls the police the next time you get in an argument. That happened in Palm Beach County.

Three teenagers were charged with kidnapping a 15-year-old boy and demanding that a $50 ransom be dropped off at a Fort Myers Taco Bell.

And while it may not have been criminal, a high school TV journalist in Estero was suspended for deviating from his script. After reporting that the girls' soccer team kicked some booty, he added, "I love booty."

It was booty that caused Tampa area officials to stop construction on a school for emotionally disturbed students. After thinking about it, they decided the site wasn't such a good one, given the adult book stores and strip clubs that surrounded it.

A homeless man obsessed with tennis star Anna Kournikova swam naked across Biscayne Bay in search of her home and got caught in the buff at her neighbor's pool. As police arrested him, he screamed, "Anna! Save me!"

A drunk prosecutor thought it would be funny to streak across a parking lot and hop into a friend's car. The problem was he jumped naked into the wrong car and was arrested.

In Tampa, a 40-foot motor home was converted into a strip club, offering alcohol and lap dances outside Tampa Bay Buccaneers games.

In another story involving alcohol, sex and football, two Carolina Panthers cheerleaders were arrested after one punched another woman in a Tampa nightclub's bathroom. Other customers said the women were having sex in a stall, which the cheerleaders denied.

Alcohol was at the root of a Jacksonville Halloween night arrest. A partygoer in a Belligerent Drunk Man costume consisting of a blue sweat suit, a belt made out of beer can pop tops and a Superman-style "BDM" emblem on this chest got a few laughs until he actually became a belligerent drunk man and started a fight with the Green Hornet.

Among 2005's most unusual drug arrests: Police checking to make sure no one was hurt after a tornado ripped the roof off a Palm Bay home said they found 54 marijuana plants growing in a bedroom, 750 pounds of cocaine were hidden in fake plantains being shipped to Miami and a man left a half-gram of marijuana as a tip at a Jacksonville Starbucks and was arrested when he returned the next day.

And how can the state cut down on crime? One Jacksonville church called for a citywide ban on low-hanging pants and gold-capped teeth.

In other church news, a pastor called police to remove 16 congregants who refused to stop singing as he tried to begin his sermon.

In Broward County, an officer pulled over a doctor speeding to the hospital to deliver a baby and quipped, "What are you delivering, pizza?" and "If you're a doctor, I'm Mickey Mouse." The doubting officer took the doctor to the hospital in handcuffs, where a waiting woman was giving birth.

A real pizza delivery man in the Tampa area was shot in the leg during a robbery attempt -- and then delivered four other pies before seeking treatment.

And in a rather unusual Tampa area traffic stop, a practical joker put a blue-and-red flashing light on a car dashboard. He stopped laughing, though, after two men he pulled over turned out to be undercover officers. The said they found 7 grams of cocaine alongside the flashing light.

Also in the Tampa area, a man apparently became enraged by a Bush-Cheney sticker on an SUV and chased a woman for miles, displaying an anti-Bush sign and allegedly trying to run her off the road.

Politicians were not immune from their share of embarrassing moments.

Love, not rage, was on the mind of state Sen. Gary Siplin when a television news reporter asked the Orlando Democrat about a questionable transfer in his campaign account. A smiling Siplin hugged the reporter and said "I love you" three dozen times.

The vice mayor of Eagle Lake wanted to pass a rule banning spitting at City Council meetings after accusing a former city manager of doing just that. The former official denied having spit and said the proposed rule was "the most asinine and juvenile thing I have heard."

An Orlando-area high school chemistry teacher was arrested after students said the teacher gave a lesson on bomb building. In other school news, St. Petersburg police officers handcuffed an unruly 5-year-old girl after she acted up in her kindergarten class.

Once again, O.J. Simpson couldn't stay out of the news. In July, a neighbor called authorities and reported Simpson was being beaten by his girlfriend. Later that month, Simpson was ordered to pay $25,000 for pirating satellite television signals.

And finally, an Orlando area shoe manufacturer sued a supplier, claiming that it delivered the wrong chemical for an insole gel. The mixup caused the shoes to make a flatulent sound with each step.

Not as funny as that French guy who had an internet affair with someone who turn out to be his mother.

There was a thread on it a while ago.
Yeah, I remember that one. Talk about a shocker! OMG! :D

Florida seems to be especially prevalent with bizarre news, enough to write three books about it.

And while it may not have been criminal, a high school TV journalist in Estero was suspended for deviating from his script. After reporting that the girls' soccer team kicked some booty, he added, "I love booty."

From http://edition.cnn.com/2005/US/12/31/weird.florida.ap/index.html :
Now that's the kind of TV journalist who will go far! :D

2005 was a good year for insanity

Not as funny as that French guy who had an internet affair with someone who turn out to be his mother.

There was a thread on it a while ago.
Uh...that was a weekly world news report. You know, the tabloid that has updates about 'Batboy', Osama marrying Saddam and aliens and Abe Lincoln's ghost talking to Bush. My favourite was a fridge haunted by the ghost of Adolf Hitler. Apparently he kept appearing from behind the cheese and ordering the poor woman to invade Poland.
So best take their reports with a grain of salt.

Unlike those Eutrusca reported, most of which I recognise from slightly more reputable news sites.

Uh...that was a weekly world news report.

Ahh, didn't realise that. I only vaguely remembered it. And this thread brought it back to my memory.

Ahh, didn't realise that. I only vaguely remembered it. And this thread brought it back to my memory.
Your posts here are quite scary, in a way. You vaguely remember a discredited story, but can't remember that it's discredited. You therefore assume it must be true. Makes one wonder about how many other 'facts' we have. About more important things than unlucky frenchmen.
It just shows you that Goering's adage about 'tell them a lie enough times and they'll believe it'.

Your posts here are quite scary, in a way. You vaguely remember a discredited story, but can't remember that it's discredited.

I don't recall ever being told it was discredited. And it doesn't seem too outlandish to be impossible (unlike Batboy, say).

Also, the Weekly World News doesn't have the same resonance with me as other similarly satirical outlets like Punch, Private Eye or The Onion.

Makes one wonder about how many other 'facts' we have

Indeed. I wonder that a lot. Especially when it comes to things I was taught when I was younger.