http://www.lads-stash.com/bizarre/ Get all the latest Bizarre news in a convenient RSS feed. en-gb Sat, 19 Jul 2008 06:54:54 +0100 Copyright: (C) Play-2-Win Ltd http://www.lads-stash.com/_furniture/gfx/logos/ladsstash.png http://www.lads-stash.com/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.lads-stash.com/bizarre/Hot+chair+balloon-51273.html http://www.lads-stash.com/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.lads-stash.com/bizarre/Hug+mugger-51274.html http://www.lads-stash.com/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.lads-stash.com/bizarre/Gnawed+toe-51275.html http://www.lads-stash.com/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.lads-stash.com/bizarre/Pip+spitters-51276.html http://www.lads-stash.com/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.lads-stash.com/bizarre/Independence+cheese+Troy+Landwehr-51277.html http://www.lads-stash.com/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.lads-stash.com/bizarre/Death+by+couch-51268.html http://www.lads-stash.com/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.lads-stash.com/bizarre/Octopus+cubes-51269.html http://www.lads-stash.com/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.lads-stash.com/bizarre/Tea+thief-51270.html http://www.lads-stash.com/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.lads-stash.com/bizarre/Bat+bra+Abbie+Hawkins-51271.html http://www.lads-stash.com/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.lads-stash.com/bizarre/Sewage+Bush-51272.html http://www.lads-stash.com/bizarre/Sewage+Bush-51272.html Sat, 12 Jul 2008 13:15:08 +0100 Bizarre A US man was arrested after deciding to leave jail naked. Bill Merit, 49, left the Chatham County jail and began walking by the side of the road, completely nude. Shocked witnesses called the police, who arrested him on the spot and sent him straight back to jail again on a charge of public indecency. http://www.lads-stash.com/bizarre/Naked+arrest-51259.html http://www.lads-stash.com/bizarre/Naked+arrest-51259.html Sat, 5 Jul 2008 13:15:05 +0100 Bizarre A British student has designed a cardboard bicycle, which he has described as the "ultimate green machine". Phil Bridge, 21, says the bike will be cheap enough for almost anybody to buy while also deterring thieves. http://www.lads-stash.com/bizarre/Cardboard+bike-51260.html http://www.lads-stash.com/bizarre/Cardboard+bike-51260.html Sat, 5 Jul 2008 13:15:05 +0100 Bizarre Farmers in Alberta Canada are having trouble giving away free llamas. A spate of adverts for unwanted Llamas appeared in local papers, but their owners are struggling to find takers. http://www.lads-stash.com/bizarre/Llama+farmers-51261.html http://www.lads-stash.com/bizarre/Llama+farmers-51261.html Sat, 5 Jul 2008 13:15:05 +0100 Bizarre A US police chief has banned low hung trousers which expose wearers' behinds. David R. Dicks, from Michigan, claims officers will arrest people who wear their pants too low. http://www.lads-stash.com/bizarre/Butt+ban+David+R+Dicks-51262.html http://www.lads-stash.com/bizarre/Butt+ban+David+R+Dicks-51262.html Sat, 5 Jul 2008 13:15:05 +0100 Bizarre A US man was charged with battery after he hit his mother in the head with a three-pound package of Polish sausage. Gregory Allen Praeger, 46, was in the kitchen and when he had any argument with his mum. He then picked up the package of sausage and hurled it, grazing her head. http://www.lads-stash.com/bizarre/Sausage+attack-51263.html http://www.lads-stash.com/bizarre/Sausage+attack-51263.html Sat, 5 Jul 2008 13:15:05 +0100 Bizarre A British pupil who wrote "F*** off" on his exam paper was given two marks for spelling it correctly. The student got 7.5 per cent for the obscene writing - and England's chief examiner said he'd have got 11 per cent if he had added an exclamation mark. http://www.lads-stash.com/bizarre/Rude+marks+Peter+Buckroyd-51264.html http://www.lads-stash.com/bizarre/Rude+marks+Peter+Buckroyd-51264.html Sat, 5 Jul 2008 13:15:05 +0100 Bizarre A British learner driver crashed halfway through his test but still managed to pass. Student Gareth Purslow, 20, hit another car as it pulled out from a parking bay, but continued the test with a dent in the side of his instructor's Renault Clio in High Wycombe, South England. Delighted Gareth said: "I couldn't believe it when I got the pass slip b... http://www.lads-stash.com/bizarre/Crash+pass-51265.html http://www.lads-stash.com/bizarre/Crash+pass-51265.html Sat, 5 Jul 2008 13:15:05 +0100 Bizarre Cash-strapped Polish students thought they'd snapped up a bargain holiday to France - only to later realise they'd been recruited into an Iranian terrorist group. More than 3,000 Polish students signed up for the £5-a-head coach trip but were bussed straight to a demo for Iranian militants the People's Mujahideen. http://www.lads-stash.com/bizarre/Terror+holiday++Iranian+militants-51266.html http://www.lads-stash.com/bizarre/Terror+holiday++Iranian+militants-51266.html Sat, 5 Jul 2008 13:15:05 +0100 Bizarre A US city has changed its name to Nowthen. The community in Minnesota changed its name from Burnsville Township to Nowthen- the name given to the first local post office by mistake. http://www.lads-stash.com/bizarre/Nowthen++were+here-51267.html http://www.lads-stash.com/bizarre/Nowthen++were+here-51267.html Sat, 5 Jul 2008 13:15:05 +0100 Bizarre Classic rock songs are replacing traditional hymns at funerals in one Australian city. Led Zeppelin's 'Stairway to Heaven' and AC/DC's 'Highway to Hell' are among the most popular song choices at Centennial Park - the largest cemetery and crematorium in the southern city of Adelaide. Only two hymns still rank among its top 10 funeral songs: 'Amazing Grace' and 'Abide with Me'. http://www.lads-stash.com/bizarre/Rocking+funerals-51258.html http://www.lads-stash.com/bizarre/Rocking+funerals-51258.html Sat, 5 Jul 2008 13:15:04 +0100 Bizarre