Strange but True Stories

[unfrufru]

Very superstitious
August 16, 2004

A superstitious Romanian, who refused to leave his house on Friday the 13th to avoid bad luck, died after he was stung by a wasp in his kitchen, police said.

Florin Carcu, 54, had even taken the precaution of asking his boss for permission not to go to work on the inauspicious Friday, the police in Cluj, central Romania, said in a statement.

"It was the strangest request I've ever received but I ended up giving him permission to stay at home because he seemed to be really scared of something bad happening to him on that day," Mr Carcu's boss Gheorghe Domsa told the press.

Doctors from the emergency services in Cluj said Mr Carcu had been making coffee when he was stung.

The killer wasp, which is very rare in Romania and whose sting is very poisonous, killed Mr Carcu on the spot.

[Duhkha]

how's this for stupid...

Britney's gum sale
29aug04

A LUMP of chewing gum spat out by Britney Spears is up for sale on eBay.

An eBay spokesman said at first the selling point was the DNA the gum offered, but that would have contravened the site's rules on selling anything connected to the human body, so the ad's words were changed.

[unfrufru]

everybody, 1 , 2, 3 AAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Dog gives birth to kitten
August 30, 2004

People have flocked to a small village on the outskirts of Cambodia's capital after a man claimed that his ten-year-old pet dog has defied nature and the ancient tradition of her species reviling cats and given birth to a kitten.

Owner Te Huot told Deutsche Presse-Agentur that his dog, called Knou, gave birth to a grey tabby kitten after he was visited by a forest monk who claimed that the dog had mated with a tiger.

He said it was only the second time in the dog's life that she had given birth, and that the first time, five years earlier, she had produced normal canine puppies.

However, he claimed that last Tuesday, Knou went into labour at his Chhbar Ampou village home and produced a single kitten.

The phenomenon has brought crowds thronging to Te Huot's home to burn incense and give donations towards the dog and its tiny kitten, which Te Huot says is a sign from the gods.

"This animal cries like a cat, and its face is like a cat, but its feet are bigger than a cat's and look more like a dog's feet," local media quoted Te Huot as saying.

However, one visitor on Friday was less than impressed.

"It is a kitten," the man told DPA. "I only went to see what it looked like, but when the owner told me I had to pray to the dog, I left. I don't believe him that this kitten came from his dog."

Animal husbandry experts also cast doubts on the ability of a dog to give birth to a cat, but sheer curiosity value still saw hundreds of Cambodians mobbing the bemused new canine mother in a rush to witness the alleged strange birth for themselves.

DPA

[unfrufru]

3 people were trampled to death in Europe when 200,000 people tried to storm the entrance to the local IKEA store to win free gift vouchers.

maybe ikea could open a new range of DIY coffins. mind you you'd be dead before you could put it together. probably self inflicted suicide with the allen key.


god i crack me up. i've still got it baby!

[unfrufru]

BWAHAHAHAHA

That's blown it
September 2, 2004 - 10:49AM

A man caught having sex with a blow-up doll in a busy shopping arcade in Berlin had to be physically parted from his rubber lover and escorted away, said police.



The 38-year-old man was caught with his trousers down on Monday evening after alarmed witnesses alerted the police.

"It was real, he was caught in mid-action with the doll," said a press spokeswoman. Police said that they had considerable difficulty separating the drunken man from his partner.

Reuters

[Mythor]

Originally Posted by Snopes

Would you like fries with that?

Hungry!?

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From: http://www.snopes.com/photos/commercials/bigburger.asp

It has pictures of the burger.

[GentleZephyr]

Sent Packing
Charles D. McKinley, 25, of Brooklyn, N.Y., had four weeks of vacation coming, so he decided to visit his parents in DeSoto, Texas. Rather than buy a plane ticket for $320, McKinley, a shipping clerk, packed himself into a shipping crate and air-expressed himself home, charging the fees to his employer.

When the crate was delivered to his parents' front step, McKinley pushed out of the box and shook hands with the "shaken and frightened" delivery driver. The driver called the police. After an investigation by the FBI, the U.S. attorney, postal inspectors, the Federal Aviation Administration and the Transportation Security Administration, McKinley was charged as a stowaway, a federal misdemeanor.

[miss_doobie]

Dunno how true this is (and someone around here will probably prove that it isn't) But if it IS true, then it is very freaky.

http://www.anomalies-unlimited.com/Prayer.html

[unfrufru]

As strange as it getsOctober 5, 2004 - 4:36PM

An elderly Romanian man reportedly mistook his penis for a chicken's neck, cut it off and his dog rushed up and ate it.



The nation's state Rompres news agency says 67-year-old Constantin Mocanu, from a village near the southeastern town of Galati, rushed out into his yard in his underwear to kill a noisy chicken keeping him awake at night.

"I confused it with the chicken's neck," Mocanu, who was admitted to the emergency hospital in Galati, was quoted as saying.

"I cut it ... and the dog rushed and ate it."

Doctors said the man, who was brought in by an ambulance bleeding heavily, was now out of danger.

[Renee_Turner]

Not really a great ego boost for the guy, saying that he could mistake his own penis for a chicken's neck. As a guy, wouldn't he have gone the macho way "Well, I thought I'd lined up the chicken's neck on a fallen tree, and it wasn't until after I'd swung down..."

[unfrufru]

Jail refuge from ball and chain

October 7, 2004

A man in Germany surrendered to authorities saying he preferred spending time in jail rather than being free at home with his wife, police said yesterday.



The 47-year-old man in the North Sea coastal town of Itzehoe had been slapped with a fine of 100 euros ($170) for an offence.

Faced with a choice of paying the fine or spending 10 days in jail, he asked officers to lock him away.

"He said he couldn't stand the constant bickering at home with his wife and was looking forward to a bit of peace and quiet," a police spokesman said.

[GentleZephyr]

I think there are quite a few guys out there who would feel the same way.

[unfrufru]

The disco terrorsOctober 8, 2004

A Romanian village was left deserted when its inhabitants fled in panic, mistaking disco lights in a nearby town for an alien invasion.





Villagers in Cristinesti, eastern Romania, thought they were under attack by aliens when they saw multicoloured lights in the sky.

Police called to investigate discovered the lights were coming from an open-air disco, Adevarul reports.

Police eventually persuaded villagers to return.

One said: "We believed we were seeing UFOs and some old legends from around here about clocks stopping, animals going crazy and ... a previous UFO landing in the area suddenly came to our minds. We were terrified."

He added: "We were so happy when we heard we had escaped an alien invasion."

[nahemah]

Originally Posted by unfrufru

A superstitious Romanian, who refused to leave his house on Friday the 13th to avoid bad luck, died after he was stung by a wasp in his kitchen, police said

Originally Posted by unfrufru

An elderly Romanian man reportedly mistook his penis for a chicken's neck, cut it off and his dog rushed up and ate it.

Originally Posted by unfrufru

A Romanian village was left deserted when its inhabitants fled in panic, mistaking disco lights in a nearby town for an alien invasion.

Those Romanians... what will they do next?!!

[Mythor]

Colin Powell... resigns?

All the resignations are very strange.