Weird News World

One of the most messed up world records has been set this year after American Darren Taylor broke the shallow diving record. For the uninitiated this is the act of jumping from a great height into not very much water. Depending on your childhood this may immediately make you think of Dumbo. Anyhow, the facts [...]

A man has been killed by a cock, which he had been watching fight in an illegal showdown between two birds in Tulare County, central California. Jose Luis Ochoa, 35, was declared dead in hospital where he arrived some two hours after being injured by the cock, which was armed with a knife. “I have [...]

An American man has been arrested after ringing 911 to ask how much trouble he (or his mate ‘Bob’) would get for growing one marijuana plant. Robert Michelson, 21, was told he would be arrested and that is what happened when police checked out the dopehead for themselves and found a small amount of marijuana [...]

What is the one thing you wouldn’t want to do after eating multiple Kirspy Kremes? Probably run. How about if you’d just eaten 12 Krispy Kremes? Running would be fairly low on the priority list we should imagine, other than running for a bucket. However, running is just what is required in the weirdest sport [...]

Criminals go to some extraordinary lengths to avoid going to prison, but few have been more reckless than 20-year-old Nicholas Duffy from Utah in America, who decided to jump head first out of a moving police car. The man, who had been arrested on suspicion of carrying out a burglary, complained he felt sick and [...]

A woman from New Jersey in America has told her story of how she suffers from Alien Hand Syndrome – one of the weirdest and most unfortunate illnesses we have heard about. Under the condition her left hand, and sometimes her left leg, behaves as if controlled by a puppet master (or an alien lifeform) [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

How far would you go in the name of charity? For many of us sitting in a bath full of baked beans is about as wild as it gets, so spare a thought for a man from Florida, USA, who is this month living in a fenced enclosure with two African lions. James Jablon is [...]

A spilt coffee was to blame for a jet’s distress signal that led to fears on the ground that it was being hijacked. The United Airlines flight from Chicago to Frankfurt, Germany, was forced to make an unscheduled stop in Canada after the coffee spill caused distress signals to go out. The flight crew quickly [...]