Flip-flop weirdness

WA Today: Drunk man causes entire town to dissolve into flip-flop confusion

Our spotter says: "This is my home town and I couldn't be more proud"

Spotter's Badge: Michelle

Worst ever driving offender weirdness

Bath Chronicle: Disabled crack cocaine addict crashed his car after trying to drive it using a metal pole to operate the brake

"He was carrying a passenger, described by witnesses as a topless man, who ran away from the wreckage"

Spotter's Badge: Chris

Granny spanking books weirdness

Manchester Evening News: Great-grandmother writes dirty books about spanking

Most shuddersome quote: "They say a writer should write about what they know"

Spotter's Badge: Charlotte

Bunch of fives weirdness

Essex Echo: Mugger meets his match in 76-year-old arm-wrestling champ

I want her on my team, thank you.

Spotter's Badge: Robert

Goose weirdness

Southern Daily Echo: Goose amok

She's not very polite when it comes to cars, and she's been pecking cars as they come around

Spotter's Badge: James

Giant coffee cup weirdness

Hull Daily Mail: Giant coffee cup appears on roundabout

"I'll have a 375 shot espresso, please"

Spotter's Badge: L0wey

Headline of the year weirdness

Swindon 24: Cock-lover pleas for support after roosters' home destroyed in storm

Well played, Swindon 24, well played.

Worst ever getaway driver weirdness

South Wales Evening Post: Driver uses DIY smokescreen in failed attempt to escape police

"He said it was used to catch moles"

 

Because moles all buzz around town in a Nissan Almera while being chased by a clapped-out Peugeot.

Spotter's Badge: Paul

Vernon's fruitless 30-year search for love weirdness

Bournemouth Echo: This man wants bus company's help in tracking down a woman he fleetingly saw on a passing bus thirty years ago, in the hope that she's single and available and he's not weird at all

He's weird. Very weird. And slightly creepy.

Bad E-fit

Oxford Mail: Man wanted for attempted robbery

I know what you're thinking: Tramp Ian Beale

Don't have nightmares.

Rosebud weirdness

Manchester Evening News: Man given his long-lost toilet by council

Like Citizen Kane, only with a shitter.

Spotter's Badge: Tim

Baby name weirdness

Exeter Express and Echo: Louis out of One Direction 'stole my baby's name'

It's true. If you look at the birth certificate, there's now a huge blank space and now that's the youngling's official name and can't be changed EVER. Damn you, Louis.

Spotter's Badge: Alejandro

Don't beat up the bear weirdness

Western Daily Press: Thugs beat up man in bear costume

Watch it, you idiots. One day it might not be a costume.

(Hint to Bright House: Make this happen)

Spotter's Badge: Andrew

Pudding bowl weirdness

Gloucestershire Echo: Man attacked by pudding bowl-wielding fiend

I hope the culprit got his JUST DESSERTS

Spotter's Badge: Chris

Face of Jesus weirdness

Leicester Mercury: Jesus is back - in log form

Well, he WAS a carpenter

Spotter's Badge: Ken

School name weirdness

Cheddar Valley Gazette: Hugh Sexey school is a thing. You sexey thing

Alumni are called Sexey Kids.

Yes. I went there.

Ian Beale weirdness

Get Reading: Student gets Ian Beale tattoo. Drink involved

At least it wasn't moustache-era Beale

Considerable amount of excrement weirdness

Exeter Express and Echo: Appeal for witnesses as "considerable amount of excrement" found at bus stop

"Because of the prodigious quantity we were unsure if it was animal or human waste."

Superman saves the day weirdness

Cheddar Valley Gazette: The streets of Metropolis Gloucester now safe after Superman apprehends cashpoint mugger

Strangely, I don't ever remember Superman having a man bag.

Spotter's Badge: Marianne

Sheep on the loose weirdness

Wrexham.com: Sheep on the loose in Wrexham

The map is a work of genius.

Spotter's Badge: Mick

Jesus has returned praise him weirdness

Bexley News Shopper: Has the face of Jesus been seen in the local rubbish tip?

NO.

Spotter's Badge: Neil

Weird Letters to Local Newspaper Editors

Cheddar Valley Gazette: Sainsbury's has opened and Cheddar has turned into a pack of scavenging hyenas

Angry letters to local newspapers appear to be a rich seam yet to be mined.

Spotter's Badge: Hannah

Scary mural weirdness

Frome Standard: Unsettling mural on graffiti wall makes kiddiewinks too scared to go to the park

Won't anybody think of the kiddiewinks?

Spotter's Badge: Joseph

Don't crash into our house weirdness

Cheddar Valley Gazette: Man paints warning sign on his house to stop people crashing into his house

As a rule of thumb, you shouldn't go crashing your car into people's houses.

Spotter's Badge: Charlotte C

Sandy wind weirdness

Cheddar Valley Gazette: Man who lives next to beach wants the council to so something about sandy wind

A very, very, very, very large tarpaulin, for example.

Spotter's Badge: Mike

Bad E-Fit

Macclesfield Express: Man acts strangely in pub

Laugh? I can't even leave the house.

Don't have nightmares.