Weird News

Nov 20, 2008

Des Moines, Iowa's pink menace is no more. Zookeepers have captured a runaway flamingo that recently flew the coop at the Blank Park Zoo.

Nov 21, 2008 | 8 comments

The 14-year-old Massachusetts girl was eating her double cheeseburger from McDonalds when she found a piece of needle or syringe inside. Health officials believe that it was a piece of a veterinary needle...

Nov 20, 2008 | 7 comments

The dog's name might be Bentley, but this pooch likes to drive a Ford.

Nov 22, 2008 | 2 comments

Scientists are still looking for fragments of a meteor that burned across the Canadian sky Thursday evening. Reports of a fireball in the sky spread from Edmonton to Regina--- for those not versed in Canadian...

6 hours ago

A 12-year-old Florida student was arrested earlier this month after he "deliberately passed gas to disrupt the class," according to police.

Nov 20, 2008

A new account from a German army medic confirms what the world has long suspected, according to the London Sun.

Nov 18, 2008 | 15 comments

Minnesota trucker's pet duck hits the road.

Nov 20, 2008

Driven by state budget woes, a California high school teacher uses creativity to pay for classroom supplies: ads on test papers. On back to school night, he collected $270 from parents who sponsored a...

Nov 18, 2008 | 3 comments

Two Florida divers recently taped their encounter with a rare whale shark swimming in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Captiva Island.

Nov 18, 2008

As models hit the stage outside Evie's On The Green during a recent police fund raiser in Sarasota, Florida thieves took a seat inside the popular ice cream parlor.

Nov 19, 2008

Employees at US Airways are looking into how an 83-year-old woman in a wheelchair flying Monday from New York to Tampa instead found herself at an airport in Puerto Rico.

Nov 19, 2008

Port St. Lucie, Florida police are looking for two Coral Springs men who they suspect stole more than four dozen breast pumps from a local Babies "R" Us store.

Nov 19, 2008

Police in Dallas, Texas are looking for a man who stretches the traditional definition of "cat burglar".

Nov 19, 2008

A convicted Nevada killer could receive a second chance at freedom thanks to a juror who apparently fell in love with him.

Nov 19, 2008

A Wisconsin woman was charged years after her death for an ambulance call she made.

Nov 19, 2008 | 21 comments

Joe and Mike Furrer are true outdoorsmen and when father and son get something special, like a ten point white buck, they want to share.

Nov 19, 2008

One of the largest brothels in Europe is encouraging its customers to trade ink for kink by giving free entry to men who tattoo the risque club's name on their arms.

Nov 19, 2008 | 11 comments

Veterinarians carried out a rare blood transfusion in an attempt to save a 7-month-old wild tiger that had been attacked and beaten by angry villagers in central India

Nov 18, 2008 | 26 comments

A woman accused of helping her religious leader hide a decaying corpse on her toilet so they could continue collecting her Social Security was convicted of a misdemeanor.

Nov 17, 2008

Looking for a little more spice in your political life? Consider joining the Sex Party -- a political group in Australia that will launch this week and hopes to use porn shops as its headquarters.

Nov 18, 2008

Nursing-home residents have sexual needs too. And now researchers are finding ways to educate staff on the taboo topic and provide accommodations for the elderly to shack up under some privacy.

Nov 18, 2008

13-year-old Gabe says he's tried everything to get his cat to come down off his perch atop this city light utility pole.

Nov 20, 2008

Exotic dancer Kimberlee Ouwroulis filed a complaint with the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario because she says against Canadian strip club "New Locomotion" fired being her for being over the hills.

Nov 18, 2008

A 15-year-old boy who played a new version of the World of Warcraft computer game for 24 consecutive hours suffered an apparent epileptic seizure.