Category: Weird & Strange
27 May, 2009 (19:48) | Medicine, News, Weird & Strange | No comments
MIAMI — A 2-month-old South Florida boy is recovering after a delicate and potentially life-threatening surgery to remove a rare tumor from his mouth.
Jordan Jamal Smith’s entry into the world was problematic from the beginning. Four months into his mother’s pregnancy, doctors discovered a large, rare tumor growing from his mouth.
The tumor was so large, […]
16 May, 2009 (14:42) | News, Parents Behaving Badly, Shocking, WTF!, Weird & Strange | No comments
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — “It was pretty bizarre,” said neighbor Ramon Rodriguez.
Rodriguez was one of the first to discover 34-year-old Angelo Mendoza on April 28 after police said Mendoza bit an eyeball out of his 4-year-old son’s face and ate it.
“The guy was crazy. Real bug-eyed; he had to be on drugs,” said Rodriguez.
Court documents said […]
11 May, 2009 (18:54) | Ghosts & Hauntings, News, Weird & Strange | 1 comment
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The former owner of a 180-year-old adobe building hears the door of a potbellied stove opening and wood being stacked inside, but no one is there.
Mysterious whispers echo in the current owner’s ear. Things fall off shelves for no apparent reason.
These are just a few of the strange goings-on that artist […]
10 May, 2009 (05:27) | News, WTF!, Weird & Strange | No comments
No charges will be filed in connection with the discovery of a mummified body inside a Piedmont home, authorities said Friday.
The body of Patricia Bostrom, who was born in 1922, was found Feb. 24 in her unlocked two-story house at Highland and Blair avenues. She had not been seen in five years, and her corpse […]
28 April, 2009 (19:38) | Medicine, News, Weird & Strange | No comments
The Russian surgeon who says he found a fir tree growing inside a patient’s lungs is standing by a claim that has been met with wide disbelief in the medical world.
The surgeon, Vladimir Kamashev, said he was “shocked” to find a five centimeter branch while operating on a patient in the central city of Izhevsk. […]
4 March, 2009 (10:08) | News, Weird & Strange | No comments
MANCHESTER, Conn. — A crash that left a dump truck standing on its end causes westbound lanes of Interstate 84 to be closed in Manchester.
Only westbound lane was open near exit 64 before 10 a.m. Officicals said traffic was getting by in the HOV lane.
Officials said traffic was backing up because of the crash, which […]
1 March, 2009 (20:35) | News, People Behaving Badly, Weird & Strange | No comments
BOULDER, Colo. — A Colorado man who posed as a police officer in an effort to confiscate pornography from an adult novelty store has pleaded guilty to impersonating a police officer.
Thirty-four-year-old Andrew Libby was sentenced Friday to two years of probation.
His lawyer, Kristi Sanders, says Libby was suffering from delusions when he entered the […]
26 February, 2009 (07:36) | Entertainment, News, Weird & Strange | No comments
VASSALBORO, Maine — Cup size has more than one meaning at a new central Maine coffeehouse.
Servers are topless at the Grand View Topless Coffee Shop, which opened its doors Monday on a busy road in Vassalboro. A sign outside says, “Over 18 only.” Another says, “No cameras, no touching, cash only.”
On Tuesday, two […]
26 February, 2009 (07:33) | Medicine, News, People Behaving Badly, Weird & Strange | No comments
Woodland, CA — The attorney for a Woodland dentist told jurors that his client massaged women’s chests as part of a medical treatment.
Defense attorney Michael Rothschild told the six-man, six-woman Yolo County jury that Mark Anderson was treating his female clients for temporomandibular disorder, or TMD. The attorney says the condition affects the […]
10 February, 2009 (15:57) | People Behaving Badly, Weird & Strange | No comments
MUNHALL, Pa. — A former police officer in the Pittsburgh suburb of Munhall will spend five years on probation after pleading guilty to soliciting sex from an underage girl and offering others $1,000 to suck their toes.
Thirty-seven-year-old Michael Curtin was charged in May, three months after he was fired as a police officer.
Curtin acknowledged […]
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