Strange but True Stories

[unfrufru]

Raising the bar
March 16, 2005

A Chinese man has lifted a 75-kilogram barbell for 10 seconds - with his penis.

Zhan, 55, attributed the skill to a branch of kung fu, the Yangtze Evening Post said.

He said his father taught him the skill to help him get fit after a serious illness when he was 18.

He started training by lifting small bricks with his penis, then gradually added weights and extended duration.

Zhan, a director of the Hong Kong Chinese Culture Development Fund, said he had no interest in applying to Guinness World Records.

Agencies

[crasyMonkey]

*cough cough* Thats what i call a talent...

[wickedsoulrebel]

Originally Posted by op shop girl

It's found-object art.

"I put tampon in this teacup..."

Hehehe, I love Ghost World.

hehehe, was thinking the same thing. the stuff you learn from films!

[Gutter Monkey]

Originally Posted by unfrufru

said he had no interest in applying to Guinness World Records.

And that's the true test of his manhood. Lifting a 75kg weight with your cock - yeah, all in a day's work. Not bothering to get the recognition for it? Legend!

[unfrufru]

Sex doll sparks bomb alert

March 18, 2005

A blow-up sex doll sparked a bomb alert in a German post office after it started to vibrate inside a package awaiting delivery, police said on Wednesday.



"Workers were unsettled when it began vibrating and made strange noises," a spokesman for police in the eastern city of Chemnitz said. "They were worried the package might be a bomb."

Officers brought the sender to the scene and discovered the source of alarm was an electrical device inside a life-size female sex doll. The man told police he had wanted to return the doll because it kept turning itself on at the wrong moment.

Order was restored after the sender removed the doll's batteries so the defective product could be returned.

Sex doll sparks bomb alert

[Renee_Turner]

Originally Posted by unfrufru

The man told police he had wanted to return the doll because it kept turning itself on at the wrong moment.

Damn it, what is it with men having problems with women turning themselves on?

[Edward]

Originally Posted by unfrufru

"Workers were unsettled when it began vibrating and made strange noises," a spokesman for police in the eastern city of Chemnitz said. "They were worried the package might be a bomb."

Because that's what bombs do, they vibrate.

At what point in bomb-making school do they say "And now we attach the most important component: the bit that makes the bomb vibrate for a while before it goes off"?

[unfrufru]

High priceMarch 18, 2005

A Vietnamese man who took a fake tablet of the impotence drug Viagra was hospitalised after his erection lasted two days.



The 47-year-old man was admitted on Sunday to Binh Dan Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City from nearby Vinh Long province, two days after taking the Chinese-made tablet, said a doctor from the hospital where he was treated.

The man bought the pill from an acquaintance for less than $US2 ($2.50) on Friday and took it that evening.

The man did not have intercourse after taking the pill, but could not get rid of the erection, said the doctor who declined to be named.

Doctors performed a minor operation to drain some blood from the man's erect penis.

They were not sure what was contained in the pill since no sample was available.

[unfrufru]

'Healer' jailed for sex abuse with potatoes

A Maori healer who used traditional indigenous practices to treat patients has been jailed for three and a half years for sexually violating two patients with potatoes.

Sending Christopher Tuaupiki, 64, to prison, a judge in the High Court in the North Island city of Hamilton told him it was "sad that a good reputation had been shattered" when he was found guilty on five sex charges after a week-long trial, the Waikato Times newspaper reported.

During the trial, a 38-year-old widow gave evidence that Tuaupiki told her to lie on a bed naked and rubbed a raw potato "in circular motions everywhere" to remove a curse he blamed for her son seeing the ghosts of his dead father and grandparents.

The other woman, who consulted him as a tribal elder to ask her about Maori ancestors, said he gave her similar treatment, saying the potato would cure her breast cancer and liver disease.

Doctor's tests showed the 49-year-old did not have those illnesses.

[unfrufru]

RIGHT ON SISTER!!!!!!!

Husband penalised for sex boycott
March 26, 2005

Rome: A Sicilian man who withheld sex from his wife for seven years after an argument has been ordered by a court to pay maintenance.

The man, whose name was given only as Francesco, decided to punish his wife, Piera, after she opposed him in a family argument - a punishment that lasted seven years.

The appeals court called the man's actions - or rather inactions - an "offence to her dignity" and said it constituted grounds for separation.

The court ordered him to pay court costs and maintenance to his now former wife and their children, born when their marriage was in happier times.

"The refusal to have sexual and affectionate relations over seven years with his wife constitutes a very serious offence to her dignity and has caused frustration with serious consequences for her psychological equilibrium," the court judgement said.

The court rule the husband's behaviour was a violation of article 143 of the civil code, which imposes a duty of moral and material assistance between husband and wife

[unfrufru]

Young lover kept world's oldest monkey goingMarch 29, 2005

A monkey believed to be the world's oldest has died at the age of 53 in Japan, with her keepers saying a friendly nature and late-life love affair with a younger monkey were the secrets of her longevity.



With her affable personality, Buenos the black spider monkey was one of the most popular monkeys at Japan Monkey Centre in Aichi.

She died of heart trouble on Saturday.

"Just as we were preparing to apply for the Guinness Book, she passed away peacefully. She was so fond of people. While lying on a bed, she always wanted to hold our hands," said the centre's manager Akira Kato.

On the secrets of her longevity, Kato said: "Her calm and kind personality greatly helped. It made her life stress-free. Also she started living with a young male monkey 10 years ago, which might have excited her."

Kato said black spider monkeys have an average life span of 30-33 years.

Black spider monkeys have long arms and short legs, which improve their balance while walking. They weigh about seven to nine kilograms with a height of 60 to 70 centimetres.

Buenos had a long tail stretching more than 90 centimetres, which she used for shaking visitors' hands, Kato said, adding that she mostly ate fruit and vegetables.
Larger primates can live much longer than medium-sized monkeys such as Buenos.

According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the oldest non-human primate is Cheeta the chimpanzee, the star of 1930s and 1940s Tarzan films of which he is the only surviving cast member.

Cheeta turns 74 this year in retirement in California. He was brought to the United States from Liberia when he was a few months old.

[Gutter Monkey]

Gamer murdered over cyber-sword sale

From correspondents in Beijing
March 30, 2005
From: AAP


A SHANGHAI online game player stabbed to death a competitor who sold his cyber-sword, the China Daily said today.
The incident creates a dilemma in China where no law exists for the ownership of virtual weapons.

Qiu Chengwei, 41, stabbed competitor Zhu Caoyuan repeatedly in the chest after he was told Zhu had sold his "dragon sabre", used in the popular online game Legend of Mir 3, the newspaper said a Shanghai court was told yesterday.

Legend of Mir 3 features heroes and villains, sorcerers and warriors, many of whom wield enormous swords.
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Qiu and a friend jointly won their weapon last February, and lent it to Zhu who then sold it for 7200 yuan ($1129), the newspaper said.

Qui went to the police to report the "theft" but was told the weapon was not real property protected by law.

"Zhu promised to hand over the cash but an angry Qui lost patience and attacked Zhu at his home, stabbing him in the left chest with great force and killing him," the court was told.

The newspaper did not specify the charge against Qiu but said he had given himself up to police and already pleaded guilty to intentional injury.

More online gamers were seeking justice through the courts over stolen weapons and credits, the newspaper said.

"The armour and swords in games should be deemed as private property as players have to spend money and time for them," Wang Zongyu, an associate law professor at Beijing's Renmin University of China, was quoted as saying.

Other experts called for caution.

"The 'assets' of one player could mean nothing to others as they are by nature just data created by game providers," a lawyer for a Shanghai-based internet game company was quoted as saying.

[stubbadub]

I laughed like a bitch when I first read this story, of all the fucked up reasons to be murdered this surely takes the cake.

[GentleZephyr]

The Birds

Meanwhile, Glen Steinhardt, a farmer in Murgon, Qld., Australia, applied for a "damage mitigation permit" from Queensland's Environmental Protection Agency to shoot swarms of birds eating his crops. An estimated 5,000 birds per day are feasting on his sorghum and wheat.

The EPA gave him the permit: Steinhardt may shoot a total of 87 birds, but only if he spreads the kills over an 85-day period. Steinhardt says when trucks drive through the swarms of birds when they pass his farm, it's common for them to hit and kill "30 to 60 in one strike," but that sort of killing is considered accidental and not illegal. (London Times, Brisbane Courier Mail)

...So Steinhardt simply needs to soup up his tractor so it will go 80 mph.

[Gutter Monkey]

Science is taking over!! The movies are coming to life!!

Japanese town gets real Robocop

And here's how news.com.au reported the Sony patent deal that Mythor flagged in the smacktard thread:
Sony patents 'real life Matrix'