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The Big List: Lost and Found
THE BIG LIST: Stories of missing soldiers and standed sailors are as old as literature itself – Homer’s hero Odysseus was cursed to wander for 10 years after the battle of Troy before returning home. Here are some strange but true tales of men who were lost and then found a long time later.
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‘MIA Vietnam vet’ exposed as hoax
WEIRD WORLD: A man claiming to be an American soldier missing since his helicopter was shot down during the Vietnam War has been exposed as a hoaxer.
Sno Cone Joe wages street war on Mr Ding-A-Ling
WEIRD WORLD: There ain’t enough ice-cream eaters in this town for the both of us – that was the message Joshua Malatino had for his rival ice-cream van drivers in Gloversville, New York.
‘Queen’ scolds noisy protest
WEIRD WORLD: Street protestors promoting a gay and transgender festival in London were amazed to see a regal woman dressed like Queen Elizabeth scolding them for making too much noise.
Homemade kidney machine keeps man alive for 13 years
Phuket News / Weird World
Thursday 11 April 2013, 02:39PM
WEIRD WORLD: A Chinese man with kidney disease has kept himself alive for more than 13 years using a homemade dialysis machine.
The Big List: Weird Musical Notes
Phuket News / Weird World
Thursday 4 April 2013, 12:27PM
THE BIG LIST: The story of the heavy metal group who were
banned from playing the Royal Albert Hall
sounds suspiciously like the Douglas Adams’ tale about “the loudest band in the universe” – Disaster Area – whose audience were forced to listen from a concrete bunker located several miles from the speakers. Here are a few more strange musical interludes.
Kiwis toast end of ‘Marmageddon’
Phuket News / Weird World
Thursday 4 April 2013, 12:22PM
WEIRD WORLD: Stores across New Zealand stocked up with Marmite for the first time in more than a year, as a shortage of the breakfast spread caused by an earthquake came to an end.
Driverless truck smashes along German motorway
Phuket News / Weird World
Thursday 4 April 2013, 12:21PM
WEIRD WORLD: A 40-tonne articulated truck cruised for more than 10 kilometres along a German autobahn after its driver collapsed with a heart attack.
Museum rocked by Heavy Metal threat
Phuket News / Weird World
Thursday 4 April 2013, 12:19PM
WEIRD WORLD: Britain’s prestigious Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) has cancelled a concert by “grind” metal band Napalm Death because of fears that the music will literally bring the house down.
Sick Brit fired for shark attack
Phuket News / Weird World
Thursday 4 April 2013, 12:17PM
WEIRD WORLD: A British man hailed as a hero for wrestling a shark away from an Australian beach has been sacked after it emerged that he was on sick leave at the time.
The Big List: Hey Big Spender
Phuket News / Weird World
Monday 25 March 2013, 09:53AM
WEIRD WORLD: Money, money, money ... must be funny ... in a rich man’s world. The Saudi princess who racked up a six-million euro hotel bill before trying to flee without paying sounds like a big spender, but her spending spree is almost frugal compared to those of other gazillionaires. Here, some of the more conspicous consumers in recent (and also ancient) history.
Paris property seized to pay princess’ bill
Phuket News / Weird World
Monday 25 March 2013, 09:50AM
WEIRD WORLD: A French judge has ordered the seizure of three storage units belonging to a a Saudi princess so their contents can be sold to pay her six-million euro hotel bill.
Boy groom gives wedding ghost of chance
Phuket News / Weird World
Monday 25 March 2013, 09:47AM
WEIRD WORLD: An eight-year-old boy has married a woman in her 60s – because he dreamed that the ghost of his grandfather told him to.
Fake fingers fool hospital clock-in
Phuket News / Weird World
Monday 25 March 2013, 09:45AM
WEIRD WORLD: Doctors at a hospital in Brazil have been caught using fake silicon fingers to clock-in at work – covering for absent colleagues or for workers who don’t exist, according to television news reports.
MIA Soviet heals Afghans
Phuket News / Weird World
Monday 25 March 2013, 09:07AM
WEIRD WORLD: A war veteran reported missing in action in Afghanistan during the Soviet invasion more than 30 years ago has been found living as a healer in an Afghan village.
The Big List: Famous missing persons
Phuket News / Weird World
Monday 25 March 2013, 09:02AM
THE BIG LIST: The tale of a Soviet soldier found living in an Afghan village recalls several other “missing in action” stories – but few have had such a ‘happy’ ending. Some of the “missing persons” that follow may have been genuinely missing – while others just didn’t want to be found ...
Beatles and Bonnie Tyler cheer Church with No God
Phuket News / Weird World
Monday 25 March 2013, 08:58AM
WEIRD WORLD: Echoing with joyful song and with a congregation bent on leading better lives, this London church is like any other – except there’s no mention of God.
Mexican cops stop marijuana cannon
Phuket News / Weird World
Monday 25 March 2013, 08:56AM
WEIRD WORLD: Police in the Mexican border city of Mexicali have captured a powerful cannon used to lob packages of marijuana across the border into California.
Bangkok mum gives birth on motorbike
Phuket News / Weird World
Friday 15 March 2013, 04:50PM
BANGKOK: A newborn baby fell from a motorbike in Bangkok this morning, reportedly after the rider gave birth without noticing – and without stopping to pick up the baby.
The Big List: Famous Killer Robots
Phuket News / Weird World
Tuesday 12 March 2013, 07:06PM
WEIRD WORLD: The robot armies of the future face big expectations. Robots are already used for everything from building cars to exploring Mars, but science fiction writers have long noted their potential as merciliess mechanical soldiers. Here are a few of the better-known killer robots:
Burning man mystery stumps sheriff
Phuket News / Weird World
Tuesday 12 March 2013, 07:03PM
WEIRD WORLD: Police in the United States called to a fire at a rural house think a man who died in the flames may have spontaneously combusted.
Dead bodies stolen for ‘ghost brides’ in China
Phuket News / Weird World
Tuesday 12 March 2013, 07:02PM
WEIRD WORLD:Four people have been jailed in China for digging up corpses to sell as brides for traditional “ghost marriages” – where dead single men are buried with a wife for the afterlife – according to Chinese news reports.
‘Stop Killer Robots’
Phuket News / Weird World
Tuesday 12 March 2013, 07:00PM
WEIRD WORLD: A new global campaign warns of the dangers of “autonomous weapons” – aka killer robot drones – which could soon present an international threat.
The Big List: The sky is falling
Phuket News / Weird World
Friday 1 March 2013, 06:08PM
THE BIG LIST: Although meteor strikes like the one in Russia last month are thankfully rare, hundreds of smaller meteors hit the earth every day. Most are just pieces of rubble that burn up as they enter the atmosphere – but many do get through.
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