Strange but True Stories

[GentleZephyr]

*shudders*

Nasty!

[unfrufru]

'Vaseline Man' tries to slip away
May 18, 2004

AN AMERICAN man tried to give police the slip by switching motels – but left a gooey clue that led to his capture.

Authorities said a motel cleaning crew discovered a mess of Vaseline on mattresses, bedding, a TV set, furniture, carpeting and towels in Roger Chamberlain's room after he checked out last week.

The damage was put at more than $US1000 ($1449).

Fourteen empty petroleum jelly jars and numerous pornographic magazines were also fished out of the rubbish bin, according to WNBF radio in Binghamton.

Shortly afterward, a sheriff's deputy tracked Chamberlain down to a nearby motel, finding the 44-year-old Virginia man entirely covered in the greasy ointment.

He was charged with criminal mischief.

[Glynna]

As I was reading this I couldn't figure out how the heading fits...
But now I just don't want to know.

Can we all say EWWWWW!!!!!

hehe
~G

[Scatters]

I received this one via email, being a doubting Thomas, I google searched and found it on several sites as real news.. I don't know how its possible that there was not one, but two people left in the world who could have been this naive..


No sex please, we're German

A German couple looking for fertility treatment were told that they would be better off trying sex first.

The pair visited the University Clinic of Lubek in order to investigate why it was that they had not had a child despite eight years of marriage, Ananova reports.

But after extensive tests, the clinic were left bemused by why such an apparently fertile couple were still childless, until they asked about the frequency of their sexual activity.

It emerged that the 30-year-old woman and 36-year-old man had never consummated their marriage - apparently unaware of the importance of sex in the process of conception.

"When we asked them how often they had had sex, they looked blank, and asked us what we meant," a clinic spokesman said.

"The couple were brought up in a religious environment and were simply unaware, after eight years of marriage, of the physical requirements necessary to procreate."

The pair are now undergoing sex therapy sessions in order to aid them in their bid to have a child.




Reference: No Sex

[Mythor]

Snopes to the rescue!!
http://www.snopes.com/pregnant/nosex.asp

Or perhaps not.
Similar details but not identical which leads me to believe it's going to turn up being an urban legend.

[Mythor]

$132K of Grant to Combat Goth Returned

BLUE SPRINGS, Mo. - Almost half of a $273,000 grant awarded in 2002 to fight the Goth culture in Blue Springs has been returned because of a lack of interest — and the absence of a real problem.



Blue Springs received the grant two years ago from the Youth Outreach Unit, money the city and U.S. Rep. Sam Graves trumpeted proudly as a way to fight a perceived Goth problem.

But $132,000 of the grant was returned because officials never found much of a problem with the Goth culture, which some students called a fad that most people eventually outgrow.

Slightly more than $118,000 of the money was earmarked for therapy, assessment and case management, and the plans also included a series of town meetings to discuss the issue.

"It never happened because referring someone for looking, acting Goth is not a concept that ever got imbedded in people's heads," project manager Allyce Ford said of the therapy proposal.

The town hall meetings didn't happen, either, she said, because there wasn't enough interest in the community to conduct them.

About halfway through the project, the focus shifted from Goths to counter cultures and negative influences facing children, Ford said.

"You have to admit if you saw one, two, three, four or more people dressed in traditional Goth, it would be discerning," she said. "Those kids have every right to be there. I hope the lessons you're teaching are tolerance and understanding."

Assistant City Administrator Eric Johnson said despite the change in focus, the project helped dispel myths and stereotypes associated with the Goth culture.

"That was part of the goal," Johnson said. "If we were able to accomplish that, we are able to accomplish something effective."

[hails]

PEOPLE. ARE. FUCKED.

however, if the government ever wants to hand me shitloads of cash to counsel teenyboppers about their troubling image, i would happily do it.

honestly, is there anything kids can't get hassled about these days? it's either the way you dress or the way you speak or how intelligent you are or your sexuality or your job or your lack of job or being the tiniest bit DIFFERENT from all the other fuckwits that keep telling you what to do. no wonder youth suicide is on the rise.


*cough* [/rant] :lookarou:

[unfrufru]

'Vampire' killings arrest
June 24, 2004

A man suspected of killing three people and then drinking their blood to ward off their spirits was arrested in north India yesterday, police said.

Hiralal Totia was arrested in Shankarpur village in Uttar Pradesh state, police told the Press Trust of India.

Police said Totia killed a police officer and then sucked his blood. He did the same with two other victims - a taxi driver and a woman, they added.

Totia told police under interrogation that he drank the blood of his victims as he believed this would keep away their "spirits".

[Gutter Monkey]

Originally Posted by unfrufru

Totia told police under interrogation that he drank the blood of his victims as he believed this would keep away their "spirits".

I know a better way to keep spirits away. DON'T KILL THE PEOPLE IN THE FIRST PLACE! DUH!
But then again, if the cops burst into my domicile and found me with my teeth halfway through someone's neck then I'd probably struggle to find a convincing explanation as well. "Errr ... I thought she was a giant kinder surprise?"

And where was Goth Patrol when we really needed them? Tooling around in Bumfuck Louisiana bugging the local weird kid ("Are you sure you don't feel like taking a gun to school and shooting your classmates? Not even just a little? C'mon, you can tell us ...") when they should be in India giving this wannabe vampire a hug.

[Mysterious]

Originally Posted by unfrufru

'Vampire' killings arrest
June 24, 2004

A man suspected of killing three people and then drinking their blood to ward off their spirits was arrested in north India yesterday, police said.

Hiralal Totia was arrested in Shankarpur village in Uttar Pradesh state, police told the Press Trust of India.

Police said Totia killed a police officer and then sucked his blood. He did the same with two other victims - a taxi driver and a woman, they added.

Totia told police under interrogation that he drank the blood of his victims as he believed this would keep away their "spirits".

Okay that was just freaky. I'm surprised the guy didn't get sick from drinking all that blood.

[Gutter Monkey]

Originally Posted by Mysterious

Okay that was just freaky. I'm surprised the guy didn't get sick from drinking all that blood.

Yeah, way too much iron. That'll mess you up.
The report didn't say how much blood he drank ....

[Fox``]

Not to mention the transmission of diseases, I'd be more worried about hepatitis than the spirits

[VAxwell]

Will paul be singing "I'm a cuttlefish" and doing an amusing dance from now on?



Sex habits of cuttlefish under scrutiny

The sexual antics of "cross-dressing" cuttlefish will be scrutinised in a study off South Australia's coast.

Adelaide researchers want the public's help in locating populations of cuttlefish so they can study their sexual habits.

Cuttlefish, often found in huge populations in waters off Whyalla on SA's Eyre Peninsula, attracted tourists to that area to witness their "crazy" mating behaviour, SA Museum researcher Dr Bronwyn Gillanders said.

She said small male cuttlefish tricked larger males by "cross-dressing" so they could mate with females.

The smaller cuttlefish changed body colour, tricking larger males into believing they were females, Dr Gillanders said.

When the larger males were not looking, the smaller males reverted to their normal colour and quickly mated with females, she said.

Dr Gillanders said researchers wanted the public to tell them of any large populations for the purpose of further studies.

"Although cuttlefish's sexual antics are a wonderful display to divers and snorklers, the fact is that the cuttlefish will die soon after they lay their eggs," she said.

"This gives us a window of opportunity of only two or three months, following on from their mating season, to gather as much information as we can."


From here

[unfrufru]

see u kind of freak out till u see where it was, then u go aahh

[b]Don't have a cow[/b]July 9, 2004 - 1:50PM

A two-headed calf has amazed cattle farmers in Tasmania.

Stunned owners Brenda and Ray Saltmarsh found the deformed calf when they cut open a distressed cow which had been put down during labour.

What originally had been thought to be twins turned out to be a bull calf with two perfectly formed heads.

Mr and Mrs Saltmarsh, who have a small property at Bagdad, just north of Hobart, said the cow went into labour on schedule last Friday.

But Mrs Saltmarsh said it was clearly stressed.

"She was walking the paddocks. We could see there was something wrong," she said.

"A friend examined her and said it was a very big calf.

"Then another friend examined her and said it was twins."

After a long labour which yielded no result, the farmers reluctantly decided to euthanase the cow the following morning.

The unborn calf, which had been alive the previous night, had already died.

Distressed at losing a valuable cow, the couple cut open the animal to discover why she had died.

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"We were all just amazed to see this calf with two heads, perfectly formed," Mrs Saltmarsh said.

"It was rather sickening, but very interesting."

It was not the first such incident in the area, she said.

"A fellow down the road last year had a lamb with eight legs," Mrs Saltmarsh said.

"It was awful."

Veterinary surgeon Dr Andrew Nicholson said a two-headed calf was very uncommon.

"But, like in any species, you can get these accidents of development," he said.

"I have actually delivered a calf with half a dozen legs."

Dr Nicholson said such deformities could be caused by Akabane viruses - usually spread through biting insects - or through the cow ingesting a poisonous plant during pregnancy.

- AAP

[unfrufru]

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/...693926735.html

the story is about a documentary that went to air in the UK on bestiality!!!!