Sep 5 2011

The world I tell you is full of weird people becoming the part of unusual stories you would never imagine could happen. We usually want to e aware of the major happenings around the world. News that are related to us, those that affect us directly catches our attention. Another kind of news that each one of us is interested in reading, watching or listening are the weird, unusual and strange happenings; be it by the people on individual level or collectively.

From, bizarre, fashions to the weird festivals around the world, not a month or I must say a day passes without any weird happening taking place. Continuing with the trend of jotting down the weird, wacky, odd, unusual, crazy, funny, offbeat and strange news from across the world, we at WebTabLab have come up with the Weird news stories of August 2011.

Our motive of listing down the weird news stories from all around the world is to make you aware of those happenings to let you read about if by chance you have missed them out. Believe me; I am eager to list down the weird news just the same way you are to read about them.

Hit a jump to go through the 18 weird news stories of August 2011 which promise to keep you enthralled throughout. Hope you enjoy reading each weird news story pinned below.

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1. Man Wearing Only Underwear Arrested Outside Portland Grocery Store

A Portland man was arrested after police found him standing outside a grocery store wearing only underwear. The 48-year-old Eric Foote was arrested when a concerned citizen called 911 to report Foote was disturbing the peace in the 6400 block of North Interstate by standing outside with only underwear on and a T-shirt wrapped around his head.

2. Immokalee man charged with shaving sleeping girlfriend’s head

An Immokalee man named David Bustos, 26 was arrested o ground of shaving her gril friend’s head while she slept. Bustos and his girlfriend got into an argument and next day when the girl got up she was shocked to see her boyfriend shaving her head with a clipper.

3. Drug dealer found with mobile phone attached to his penis with elastic band

A drug dealer named Leroy Junior Robinson, 27 was stopped by the police and was found to have a mobile phone attached to his penis with an elastic band. Robinson also had small quantities of drugs along with two mobile phones. Tattooed on his body were the words, ‘Get rich or die trying.’

4. Car loving couple vow to track down their beloved Citroen CV2.. 24 years after trading it in

A car loving couple has agreed to track down their old Citroen 2CV. Gordon and Lesley Venters last saw the car 24 years ago when they traded in the yellow soft-top for a Renault 5 and have regretted it ever since.

5. Idiot microwaved his cat

Stephen Stacey of Portsmouth, England, is a strong contender for the Nasty Drunk of the Year award. He was given a 16-week custodial sentence suspended for 18 months for causing unnecessary suffering to the cat, which he had named Comeonthen.

6. Teen Rhiannon Brooksbank Has Tongue Lengthened To Speak Korean

Rhiannon Brooksbank, 19 took up Korean two years ago and became so obsessed with it that she actually got herself operated as despite her best efforts, her accent failed to develop. Just to improve on her pronunciation, she recently has her unusually short tongue lengthened.

7. Cow leaps three foot fence and squashes car

In the weird car accident, motorist Robert Gould was lucky enough to be alive after a startled cow leapt over a three-foot fence and landed on his car. Stunned police called 999 and later breath-tested Robert. The cow died at the spot as it had been trying to escape from a farmer when it jumped into the road on the outskirts of Leek. While on the other hand, Robert escaped with cuts and bruises despite skidding almost 80 yards and ending up on the wrong side of the road as he tried to stop.

8. Indian woman breastfeeds calf

We all know that breastfeeding has become a thorny issue in the West for different reasons. but for Couthi Bai, a villager from Kilchu, India, breastfeeding is not at all creepy despite the fact that she breastfeeds an orphaned calf after its mother died. Couthi Bai’s calf is fed with her breast-milk which is supplemented with chapatis and water.

9. The super-sized 43st mother who is determined to become the world’s fattest woman

Susanne Eman, a 52-stone mother is aiming to become the world’s fattest woman ever. Miss Eman, 32, is aiming to reach 115st by her forties despite the fact that her doctors have warned that her experiment may kill her.

10.US man impaled through eye with pruning shears

An 86-year-old Arizona man is lucky to be alive after he accidentally impaled himself with pruning shears. Leroy Luetscher was working in his back garden when he dropped a pair of pruning shears and when he went to pick them up, he lost his balance and fell face-down on the handle. Accidently, the handle penetrated his eye socket and went down into his neck, resting on the external carotid artery. On account of serious injury, Mr Luetscher was rushed to the hospital, where surgeons removed the shears and rebuilt his orbital floor with metal mesh and were lucky to have saved his eye.

11. Strange Addiction: Woman Eats Her Husband’s Ashes

Death is immortal but some death and after death cases make strangest news stories. Casie lost her husband this year but the strangest part of the story is that she has the addiction of eating her husband’s ashes. She carries the ashes wherever she goes. It all started when one day she accidentally put her hand in the urn of ashes. She felt it would be rude and dismissive to merely wipe her hands clean, so she licked the ashes off her fingers. This gave her pleasure and continued licking the ashes off her fingers and continues to do so as she has got addicted to it. Five times a day or more Casie opens the urn and soils her fingers with her husband’s remains and consumes it.

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12. Man Arrested Snakes and Tortoises in his pants at Miami Airport

A man was arrested at Miami International Airport after being caught attempting to board a plane with seven snakes and three tortoises hidden down his pants. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officials identified the smuggler when reptiles were spotted using a body scanner. Department of Fish and Wildlife officers took custody of the animals and arrested the man for trafficking illegal wildlife.

13. Woman Arrested For Attempting To Sell Her 5-Year-Old Son

Jessica Marie Beers, 29, a Florida woman was arrested for allegedly attempting to sell her 5-year-old son for $2,000. She allegedly told a couple she met at church that she would sell them the boy’s parental rights. The couple, fearing for the child’s welfare, reported the woman to authorities which helped bring the matter into light.

14. Woman calls police over missing remote

A Greeley woman called police after she couldn’t find her television remote control. The woman called 911 seeking police help in locating the remote control. Police showed up and helped her look for it. The woman found it in her kitchen drawer.

15. Repairman Charged With Swallowing Diamond Ring

Wilfredo Gonzalez-Cruz, 30 of Chicago allegedly swallowed down the ring to try and hide it from the owners of the house he was working on. Because of this act of his, he has to face felony theft charges and up to three years in prison.

16. Alleged thief caught with 25 pairs of panties

A shoplifter was found to have stuffed a polo shirt and 25 pairs of women’s panties into his shorts. Benjamin Gilbert Kennedy, 57 was caught when the police detective Ken Brewer saw a pair of pink women’s underwear hanging out of Gilbert’s pocket with the tag still attached.

17. Thief fell asleep during break-in

Deputies in Van Buren County caught a thief easily. The police were called to the 12000 block of 62nd Street in South Haven for a break-in report. When officers got to the residence they found an unattached garage that had been forcibly entered. Many items were missing, including two four wheelers. Deputies followed the tracks from the four wheelers to the northwest of the home. They found the two stolen ATVs with a male suspect lying against one of the vehicles asleep. Deputies woke the man and took him into custody. The 26-year-old Stevensville man denied stealing anything.

18. Kidnappers Introduce Victim’s Girlfriend To Wife

Police are investigating a bizarre robbery and kidnapping that happened in Miami-Dade County this August. The robbers tied up the whole family, beat up the man, roughed up his wife and then took jewelry and money from the home. The men took off with thousands of dollars in cash and jewelry, and before leaving, the robbers brought the man’s girlfriend into the home and introduced her to his wife, thereafter which the robbers left.

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