Strange but True Stories

[lily]

Morals / ethics aside, how the fuck do you marry a horse???

[unfrufru]

not in the least because the horse would only be a 4 year old and hence underage.

or was i the only one thinking that

[lily]

I think I would have got there soon, I was still at the stage of "But it's a horse!"

[unfrufru]

this couldn't go anywhere else but here

http://dailytelegraph.news.com.au/st...toryid=1687006

Samazan's comeback

July 28, 2004

REMEMBER Bruce Samazan _ the cute, spikey-haired constable from E Street, who was a a bit of a fixture on the Australian soap circuit in the '90s with parts in Home and Away and Neighbours

He disappeared from the showbiz radar for several years, but yesterday said he's ready for a comeback.

"I'm keen to see how the industry and general public respond to me," he said.

His first role will be in a musical called Back to the Eighties, at the Evans Theatre, Penrith, in September.

"I finally got a gig after all this time and I'm really looking forward to it. I will have to dust off the old acting shoes," he said.

But his most challenging gig is on September 1, when he gets behind the decks as a guest DJ for the Stars Behind Bars charity event for multiple sclerosis at the ArtHouse Hotel. He said:

"I've been DJing for three years, but not on a professional level. I'll take any opportunity to get behind the decks for a bit of a mix."

Samazan has given up a successful career in real estate – which has kept him busy for the past four years – to pursue acting again.

[Duhkha]

The police really should have had more of a sense of humour... but funny nevertheless. I can imagine my grandpa doing something like this, crazy old bugger :p

03Aug04
Noise Annoys

A PENSIONER could be charged with wasting police time after complaining about loud music – from her own radio.
Elsie Weiss, 71, from Mulheim, Germany, called police late last night to complain she couldn’t sleep because of noise.
But police who turned up to investigate found the music was coming from the pensioner’s own radio that she had left on full volume in the back garden earlier in the day.
A police spokesman said they were considering sending her a bill for the time spent on the call.

[Mythor]

I suspect the reason they're only "considering" sending her a bill is that they know they really should, but then they did get a free laugh out of it.

[Duhkha]

Excellent point! I am trying to imagine the look on the cops face as the realization dawned on them that the music was coming from old woman’s own back yard… In that instant I don’t think I would have been able to conduct myself with any degree of professionalism, it just would have been too funny!

The poor old sod must have been so embarrassed (providing she was sane enough to comprehend her mistake … hmmm)

[Duhkha]

Hmmm, short one.
Poor dog... at least he went out happy

03Aug04
A police sniffer dog has died of a suspected overdose while hunting for drugs, British police said. The springer spanial showed symptoms of amphetamine use and died soon after the search.

[Mythor]

"Only in Amsterdam!"


"Only in Mexico!"

"Only in Nigeria?"

"Only in Athens?"
I'm a little worried about someone lecturing on Security and Terrorist issues being a privacy nut.

And last but not least, "Only in Germany."

[unfrufru]

here are 3 clues to a recent strange but true story, we have a guitar, some wax, and a mcdermott.

and can i just say, eeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwww and i'm trying to find a picture

Surgery for hairiest man
August 8, 2004

The world's hairiest man is recovering at a Shanghai hospital after undergoing an operation to remove hair that had impaired his hearing, the Xinhua news agency reports.

Yu Zhenhuan, a 26-year-old Chinese rock singer, had lost a third of his hearing due to excess hair inside his ears and had suffered from constant headaches, Xinhua reported.

He underwent a four-hour operation at a Shanghai hospital where doctors cut skin from his ears, removed the hair and follicles to prevent the hair from growing back and then reattached the skin to his ears.

"It was a successful operation," a doctor at the hospital said.

"He's still hospitalised."

Yu was listed in 2002 as the world's hairiest man by the Guinness Book of Records, Xinhua said.

Ninety-six per cent of Yu's body is covered with hair, except for his palms and the soles of his feet.

The density of hair on Yu's body reaches an average of 41 hairs per square centimetre, with each hair ranging in length from one to six centimetres.

The hair in Yu's ears were two to three centimetres long.

Doctors found Yu's ears were stuffed with hair, making him vulnerable to infections.

As a child, Yu starred in a film called China's Number One Hairy Child and later became a singer.

Still referred to as the "hairy child," Yu said he had never thought about ridding himself of all the hair and did not shave any part of his body other than his beard, the Guangzhou Daily said.

Removing the hair would mean taking away a part of his personality and would show he had lost confidence in being who he was, Yu said.

[VAxwell]

Yu hairy man!!

I could only find a pic of Yu as a baby... that monobrow is kinda scary though.


Edit: found a pic of him now-ish... SCARY! *runs away*

[unfrufru]

that's the picture i was about to post

AAARRRGGGGHHHH

men in this age of queer eye and nads, there is no need to look like that, for the love of god!!!

[Mythor]

... hold me?

[hails]

that actually sounds all sweet and nice and stuff...or it would if you knew that there wouldn't be any perverts there *s*

[Duhkha]

Here is a couple of interesting drug related stories...

Calming Waters

Britons consume the anti-depressant drug Prozac in such large quantities that traces of it can be found in the country's drinking water. The drug found it's way into the water supply from the treated sewage water.


LSD unlocked DNA

CAMBRIDGE - Francis Crick, the Noble Prize-Winning father of modern genetics, was under the influence of LSD when he first deduced the double helix structure of DNA nearly 50 years ago. The abrasive and unorthodox Crick and his brilliant American co-researcher James Watson famously celebrated their eureka moment in March 1953 by running from their lab in Cambridge to the nearby Eagle pub, where they announced over pints of bitter that they had discovered the secret of life. Crick, who died 10 days ago, aged 88, later told a fellow scientist that he often used small doses of LSD to boost his powers of thought.


(mind you, that story didn't surprise me all that much when I read it)

and finally, a story about a woman and her lovable dog...


Lips Lopped

SURGEONS in China have re-attached a woman's lips after her pet dog bit them off when she kissed it, a news report said. The woman kissed her dog regularly but one night in June the animal turned on her and bit off and swallowed her lips, according to the South China Morning Post.