http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/bizarre/ Get all the latest Bizarre news in a convenient RSS feed. en-gb Fri, 25 Jul 2008 02:11:32 +0100 Copyright: (C) Play-2-Win Ltd http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/_furniture/gfx/logos/femalefirst.png http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/bizarre/ A policeman has won £20,000 compensation after being served food laced with spit and urine. US police officer Keith Andrew's children fell sick after eating the tainted food at a KFC restaurant in October 2005. One of his sons even had to go to hospital. http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/bizarre/Kentucky+fried+urine-51278.html http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/bizarre/Kentucky+fried+urine-51278.html Sat, 19 Jul 2008 13:15:05 +0100 Bizarre Two grandmas in their 90s have become hooked on a computer boxing game. Rose Sanders, 98, and Violet Gyves, 95, have regular fights against each other on their Nintendo Wii console at the Greensleeves Care Home in South East England. http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/bizarre/Boxing+grandmas-51279.html http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/bizarre/Boxing+grandmas-51279.html Sat, 19 Jul 2008 13:15:05 +0100 Bizarre Former bandits are being recruited as tour guides in a dangerous part of India. Tourist chiefs in the state of Rajasthan reckon the chance to hang out with criminals and learn about the region's most notorious criminals will be a big draw for tourists. http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/bizarre/Bandit+tours-51280.html http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/bizarre/Bandit+tours-51280.html Sat, 19 Jul 2008 13:15:05 +0100 Bizarre A British family have taken on a pet Sheep. The now 22-stone ram was rescued as a baby by former coach driver David Palmer. He was on a nature ramble with his partner when he found the sick sheep in a patch of long grass. http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/bizarre/Pet+sheep-51281.html http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/bizarre/Pet+sheep-51281.html Sat, 19 Jul 2008 13:15:05 +0100 Bizarre Peruvian doctors have removed a number of metal objects from the stomach of a man. Luis Zarate, 38, was taken to hospital in the regional of Trujillo with a swollen stomach. Upon inspection he was found to have metal objects including nails, a watch clasp, and a knife in his stomach - all of which he had eaten. http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/bizarre/Metal+meal-51282.html http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/bizarre/Metal+meal-51282.html Sat, 19 Jul 2008 13:15:05 +0100 Bizarre Russian ravers have been left partially blinded by a light show at a party in Moscow. Bad weather forced the organisers of the Aquamarine Open Air Festival to erect tents for the all night dance party. They used lasers which would usually only be used to point upward in the sky outside, which have had a devastating effect on some partygoers indoors. http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/bizarre/Ravers+blinded-51283.html http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/bizarre/Ravers+blinded-51283.html Sat, 19 Jul 2008 13:15:05 +0100 Bizarre A pair of US teenagers are turning dead bugs into fashion accessories. Katheryn Maloney and Brady Cullinan took to making earrings and necklaces out of cicadas, after a swarm of the bugs infested their town. http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/bizarre/Bug+jewellery-51284.html http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/bizarre/Bug+jewellery-51284.html Sat, 19 Jul 2008 13:15:05 +0100 Bizarre Mexican police are hunting hitmen who advertise their services on the internet. Adverts offer killers for as little as US$6,000 - one posted on a general homeware and apartment rental site, read: "ex-military hitman, professional and discrete." http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/bizarre/Internet+hitmen-51285.html http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/bizarre/Internet+hitmen-51285.html Sat, 19 Jul 2008 13:15:05 +0100 Bizarre A tramp died leaving £34,000 in unclaimed pension money. Josef Stawinoga, 86, shunned worldly goods and lived in a tent in Wolverhampton, Central England, for more than 40 years. http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/bizarre/Shunned+fortune-51286.html http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/bizarre/Shunned+fortune-51286.html Sat, 19 Jul 2008 13:15:05 +0100 Bizarre A US man has been jailed for the fourth time for breaking into houses and stealing women's socks. The man, James Dowdy from Illinois, claims he needs psychiatric treatment for his condition. http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/bizarre/Sock+robber-51287.html http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/bizarre/Sock+robber-51287.html Sat, 19 Jul 2008 13:15:05 +0100 Bizarre A man has flown 235 miles in a garden chair tied to 150 helium balloons. Kent Couch tied the balloons to his chair with the plan of flying away from his home state in the US. Couch ended his nine hour flight by bursting the balloons with a pellet firing BB gun and a blow pipe loaded with steel darts http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/bizarre/Hot+chair+balloon-51273.html http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/bizarre/Hot+chair+balloon-51273.html Sat, 12 Jul 2008 13:15:09 +0100 Bizarre Police are looking for a mugger who held his suspect at gunpoint, then hugged him before running away. Heath Chandler, 31 from Montana, US, was leaving a Wal Mart store when the gunman pushed a semiautomatic into his stomach and demanded cash. He handed over £13 and the man took him over to a Jeep driven by a woman. The mugger then gave his victim ... http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/bizarre/Hug+mugger-51274.html http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/bizarre/Hug+mugger-51274.html Sat, 12 Jul 2008 13:15:09 +0100 Bizarre A US woman slept while her dog bit off her toe. Linda Floyd, 56, of Illinois says her miniature dachshund gnawed off her right big toe while she was asleep. Floyd has no feeling in her toes because of nerve damage from diabetes. http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/bizarre/Gnawed+toe-51275.html http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/bizarre/Gnawed+toe-51275.html Sat, 12 Jul 2008 13:15:09 +0100 Bizarre A US man has beaten his father to win his seventh cherry pip spitting championship. Brian 'Young Gun' Krause spat a cherry pip 56 feet, seven and a half inches in Michigan to take the title. Brian beat his father - Rick 'Pellet Gun' Krause - the defending champion, by six and a half inches. http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/bizarre/Pip+spitters-51276.html http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/bizarre/Pip+spitters-51276.html Sat, 12 Jul 2008 13:15:09 +0100 Bizarre A sculpture has been carved from one tonne of cheese to celebrate American Independence Day. Artist Troy Landwehr replicated an iconic painting depicting John Adams, John Hancock, Benjamin Franklin and others signing of the Declaration of Independence out of Wisconsin cheddar. http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/bizarre/Independence+cheese+Troy+Landwehr-51277.html http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/bizarre/Independence+cheese+Troy+Landwehr-51277.html Sat, 12 Jul 2008 13:15:09 +0100 Bizarre A Russian woman managed to kill her husband with a folding couch. The St Petersburg based lady was upset with her husband for being drunk and lazy so she kicked the handle of the couch - which makes it fold up against the wall. http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/bizarre/Death+by+couch-51268.html http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/bizarre/Death+by+couch-51268.html Sat, 12 Jul 2008 13:15:08 +0100 Bizarre Twenty-five octopuses have taken to playing with Rubik's Cubes. Scientists have handed the puzzle cubes to octopi in a bid to find out more about their tentacles. Scientists believe Octupii have a favourite tentacle out of their eight for finding, poking and picking up - just like humans are either left or right handed. http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/bizarre/Octopus+cubes-51269.html http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/bizarre/Octopus+cubes-51269.html Sat, 12 Jul 2008 13:15:08 +0100 Bizarre A woman avoided an attack from a knife wielding thief by calming him down with a cup of tea. The 30-year-old woman from Tokyo was confronted by the knifeman in the corridor of her apartment. She was walking with her six month old baby at the time. http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/bizarre/Tea+thief-51270.html http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/bizarre/Tea+thief-51270.html Sat, 12 Jul 2008 13:15:08 +0100 Bizarre A girl found she had been carrying a live bat in her bra for nearly a whole a day. The English girl, 19, felt vibrations but put them down to her mobile phone. Hotel receptionist Abbie Hawkins was shocked when she later investigated an itch and pulled a bat from the padding of her bra. http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/bizarre/Bat+bra+Abbie+Hawkins-51271.html http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/bizarre/Bat+bra+Abbie+Hawkins-51271.html Sat, 12 Jul 2008 13:15:08 +0100 Bizarre A group in the US is trying to rename a sewage treatment plant after outgoing President George W. Bush. The Presidential Memorial Commission of San Francisco wants to change the name of the 'Oceanside Water Pollution Control Plant' to the 'George W. Bush Sewage Plant'. http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/bizarre/Sewage+Bush-51272.html http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/bizarre/Sewage+Bush-51272.html Sat, 12 Jul 2008 13:15:08 +0100 Bizarre