Weird News in Local Newspapers
Tuesday, 30 June 2015
Buzzy weirdness
Cambridge News
:
Police use sugar to save tired bee
Scraped straight off the top of their donut
Spotter's Badge: Mark
Monday, 29 June 2015
Cow weirdness
Eastern Daily Press
:
Cow looks like this
And that's the whole story.
Spotter's Badge: Dave
Friday, 26 June 2015
Weird goings on in Cambridge Weirdness
Cambridge News
:
Naked man goes on rampage at Grantchester tea garden near Cambridge, jumps in river and barks at dog
"The incident happened near the home of best-selling author Lord Jeffrey Archer and Lady Mary Archer, who were pleased to miss the naked drama."
Spotter's Badge: Tim, who was also pleased to miss the naked drama
Thursday, 25 June 2015
Pants down the dunny weirdness
ABC Australia
:
Stop flushing your pants down the toilets, you idiots
Turn them inside out, they're good for at least another couple of days
Spotter's Badge: Dr Professor Sir Awesome
Wednesday, 24 June 2015
Toy robot weirdness
Birmingham Mail:
Toy robot turns on its fleshy master, eats her foot
This is the start of the uprising, people.
Tuesday, 23 June 2015
Time travel weirdness
Exeter Express and Echo
:
Exeter woman claims to have invented time travel
Time travel's more of a Torquay thing, to be honest. It's still the 1960s in many of their hotels.
Spotter's Badge: Clifford
Monday, 22 June 2015
Electromagnetic sensitivity weirdness
Bournemouth Echo
:
Woman has to wear silver-lined suit to leave her home because she is sensitive to the modern world
Shame it's an illness that doesn't actually exist. We hope she gets the help she needs.
Sunday, 21 June 2015
TK Maxx hand shandy incident weirdness
Bolton News
:
Man damages ten T-shirts in TK Maxx sex act
When you're THAT desperate, it's time to sit down an re-evaluate where your life's heading.
Saturday, 20 June 2015
Very specific number of gnomes weirdness
Exeter Express and Echo
:
107 gnomes found outside woman's house
No more. No less. Somebody counted them.
But do they know how many gnomes it takes to fill the Albert Hall?
Friday, 19 June 2015
Glory hole weirdness
NT News
:
A disturbing tale of sexual deviancy in the north of Australia
Let this be a lesson to you: Always keep a cricket bat handy
Thursday, 18 June 2015
Wasp attack weirdness
Bolton News:
Residents flee as swarm of wasps invades Bolton
Wasp seen actual size.
Spotter's Badge: Karen
Wednesday, 17 June 2015
Phallus flag weirdness
Get Reading
:
There's a flag with a crudely-drawn penis on the first building you see when you arrive at Reading station
We had a friend at school whose nickname was "Phallus". When I asked somebody (in my innocence) why this was, I was told "Because he's a penis", which was fair enough. Teachers, eh?
Tuesday, 16 June 2015
The most Brighton first line to a news story ever
Brighton Argus:
Two single mums are battling motherhood, school runs and baking in a bid to win over the nation with their artisan marshmallows
And the second line introduces us to the dangerous art of juggling children.
Duck stuck up a tree weirdness
South Wales Evening Post:
Bird gets stuck up a tree
If only millions of years of evolution has allowed it to develop "wings" to allow it to "fly" down.
Spotter's Badge: Paul
Monday, 15 June 2015
Suspicious chalk marks weirdness
Dorset Echo
:
Simple island folk convinced they're being targeted by burglars
The real reason will BLOW YOUR MIND (It's a running club, and we presume your mind has remained unblown)
Sunday, 14 June 2015
Seagull weirdness
Exeter Express and Echo
:
Sausage-stealing seagull on the loose
This is the cur. WATCH YOUR SAUSAGE.
Saturday, 13 June 2015
Bad e-fit
Ipswich Star
:
This man has done some bad things
If you've seen him, introduce him to a decent tailor
Don't have nightmares.
Friday, 12 June 2015
Underwear tasering weirdness
Farnborough News and Mail
:
Man in underwear tasered after threatening police with bicycle pump
Normal for Farnborough. And the picture's normal for Aldershot.
Thursday, 11 June 2015
Derelict shopping centre question to which the answer in NO
Reading Post
:
Is soon-to-be-demolished shopping mall haunted?
No. No it is not.
I used to work there, and any activity therein will be local winos lost on their way to the reasonably-priced off licence opposite.
Wednesday, 10 June 2015
Dog poo weirdness
STV:
Person dressed in zip-up dog suit teaches kids a rap about dog shit
Watch the video, and you can too. Also, two minutes of your life you'll never get back.
Tuesday, 9 June 2015
Derbyshire big cat weirdness
Burton Mail
:
Does our video prove there's a panther on the loose in Derbyshire?
No, it's a normal-sized cat, you idiots.
Monday, 8 June 2015
Five questions to which the answer is NO
Windsor Express
:
Is there a crooked tunnel under the castle?
NO.
Also, four other things to which the answer is no.
Spotter's Badge: Rob A
Sunday, 7 June 2015
Tortoise weirdness
Coventry Telegraph
:
Sex-crazed tortoise ends up twenty miles from home
Police would also like to find the moped he stole
Spotter's Badge: Rob R
Saturday, 6 June 2015
Creme Egg weirdness
East London Guardian
:
Has you seen this (suspected) Creme Egg vandal?
He's (allegedly) done Some Bad Shit. Innocent until proven guilty, an' all that.
Spotter's Badge: Andrew
Friday, 5 June 2015
Ferret weirdness
South Wales Evening Post
:
Woman finds ferret, panics, calls 999
Or 911 if you're an American ferret.
Thursday, 4 June 2015
Huge TV weirdness
South Wales Evening Post
:
Bricklayer jailed for hitting man over the head with a 42inch television
One from the weird headlines file. The rest of the story makes for pretty grim reading.
Wednesday, 3 June 2015
Gay bull weirdness
Eastern Daily Press
:
Gay bull isn't actually gay
Well, glad that's sorted.
Spotter's Badge: Cliff
Tuesday, 2 June 2015
Grantham question to which the answer is NO
Grantham Journal
:
Are there tunnels under Grantham?
NO.
(And answered in the first paragraph, which saved me a lot of time)
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