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SWAT team descend on home after man sits on his mobile phone
For anyone currently sitting on their mobile phone do not fear, your action is not a crime as the headline may suggest. However, should your gluteus maximus make a phone call it may be misunderstood that you’ve been taken hostage. At this this is what happened in Winnetka, Chicago, after a man accidentally called his [...]
Japan: Son keeps dead dad in wardrobe for five years
Police in Japan are investigating after a man admitted to putting his dead dad in a wardrobe after he began to smell. It took five years before the mummified remains were found in the wardrobe after police were contacted by the son’s ex wife who reported she could find no sign of her former father-in-law. [...]
What’s that coming over the hill? Is it Jesus? Is it Jesus?
Those of you unfamiliar with The Automatic will have to ignore the headline and hopefully read on to what is our first instance of weird news from Poland where builders are building the largest Jesus in the world. Funnily enough the Giant Jesus is rising from a cabbage patch in a Polish town, which will [...]
Forget one-eyed snakes, these ones have four
You’ve probably heard the crude line about one-eyed snakes and if you haven’t we are not going to explain it to you we are afraid. However, we will move on to a snake that has four eyes thanks to it having two heads, which spending some time on YouTube will tell you is not that [...]
What a cow! Two-headed calf born in Georgia
Mutated animals is a firm favourite of ours at Weird News World and so we couldn’t miss the chance to report on a two-headed calf that was born to a farmer in a village in the eastern Europe state of Georgia. Farmer Irakli Dzhgarkava says the cow is refusing to allow her strange offspring to [...]
Meet Sir Nils Olav: Colonel-in-chief and penguin
Norway is not renowned for having a fierce army and it is no surprise given that it has made an honorary colonel-in-chief out of a penguin. The king penguin doesn’t even live in Norway, but has become considerably well decorated ever since lieutenant Nils Egelien spotted a penguin during a visit to the Edinburgh Military [...]
Now hundreds of turtle doves found dead in Italy
After thousands of birds fell dead from the sky in America, and hundreds more died in Sweden, there have been fresh reports of hundreds of turtle doves being found dead in a town in northern Italy. The latest cash of mass deaths in the animal kingdom follow millions of dead fish washing ashore in America [...]
Burglar gets stuck in house after drinking too much
An early contender for the most stupid criminal of 2011 has emerged in Delaware, USA, after burglar rang police having got so drunk he couldn’t get out of the house he had broken into. New Castle County police report that 44-year-old John Finch became trapped in the home after climbing in through a rear window [...]
Two Chinese men spend two hours encased in ice
Two men from China have secured their place in a book of sadistic world records by standing encased in ice for two hours. Chen Kecai, 52, and Jin Songhao, 54, wore nothing by swimming trunks when they stepped into two transparent boxes and had ice poured in so that it was up to their necks. [...]
Chinese truck driver escapes certain death
When you crash in a truck over the edge of a bridge that is 200ft above ground you die, at least that’s what you would unless you are the driver of this truck, who is without doubt the luckiest man alive. After losing control of his truck his vehicle flipped over the concrete wall, but [...]
