News of the Weird: The Lost Art of Cuddling
Yes, This Is Really How They Do It: The Wolong Panda Training Base in Sichuan, China, released a series of photos to China Daily in October to mark the graduation from captivity, and into the wild, of...
View ArticleNews of the Weird: Mustache Implants Surge in Popularity
Plus, religious sex, and ear-chewing priests Plastic surgeons in Turkey and France told CNN in November that mustache implants have suddenly surged in popularity as Middle Eastern men use their...
View ArticleNews of the Weird: Families That Shoot Porn Together
Plus, betting on anything, healers and lucky cops The head of the Perse School in Cambridge, England, recently instituted a “10-Second Rule” for minor disciplinary infractions: Students could avoid...
View ArticleNews of the Weird: How Drunk Do You Have to Be?
Plus, gone fishing, and dangerous bells Update: Gary Medrow, 68, has periodically surfaced in News of the Weird since 1991 for his unique behavior of using a false identity to persuade Milwaukee-area...
View ArticleNews of the Weird: Gaza Cosmetics Company Offering Anti-Israel Perfume
Plus, political favors and dead air Updating “The Smell of Napalm in the Morning”: A cosmetics company in Gaza recently began selling a fragrance dedicated to victory over Israel and named after the...
View ArticleNews of the Weird: God Loves Fossil Fuels!
Plus the vulgar Xmas spirit and other strange newsThe usual 20,000 or so visitors every year to Belgium's Verbeke Foundation art park have the option (365 of them, anyway) to spend the night inside...
View ArticleNews of the Weird: Jails Need Locks Too?
Plus, senior chic and jerky shame “Fulton Jail Will Get Working Cell Locks,” read the Dec. 19 Atlanta Journal-Constitution headline. The county commission serving Atlanta had finally voted to break a...
View ArticleNews of the Weird: Porn Site Estimates Its Viewers Have Spent 1.2 Million...
Plus, drugged vultures, smelly old people and more strange newsPerspective: A leading “adult” search engine reported in December that, over the last seven years, just two of the most popular Internet...
View ArticleNews of the Weird: Man Cites 'Corporations Are People' Ruling as Excuse to...
Plus the phone for philanderers, and a porn star in the pulpit California activist Jonathan Frieman finally got his day in court in January, but a Marin County judge quickly rejected his argument that...
View ArticleNews of the Weird: Ireland to Issue DUI Permits?
Plus, waterboarding for kids! And more strange news.Cliche Come to Life: The Kerry, Ireland, county council voted in January to let some people drive drunk. The councillors reasoned that in the...
View ArticleNews of the Weird: Crazy Kids
Plus, stalked by mom and dad, dogs can drive and more weird news storiesAn estimated 3.2 million kids aged 5 to 12 take mixed-martial arts classes, training to administer beatdowns modeled after the...
View ArticleNews of the Weird: Sacred Silence
Plus, teaching France's wolves, and the rubber room Officials at England's 12th-century St. Peter's Church in Seaford, East Sussex, which is renowned for its eerie quiet, created a 30-minute CD...
View ArticleNews of the Weird: A Teacher With a Phobia of Kids
An Arizona appeals court ruled in February that someone can be guilty of driving under the influence of marijuana even though its psychoactive ingredient has long left his system. Since tests of...
View ArticleNews of the Weird: Brothels for the Disabled
Plus DIY outsourcing, and erotic fine print A Verizon risk team, looking for data breaches on a client's computers, discovered that one company software developer was basically idle for many months,...
View ArticleNews of the Weird: Doping on Ice
Plus, the price of fashion, and pro teeth-liftingLeaders of the ice-fishing community, aiming for official Olympics recognition as a sport, have begun the process by asking the World Anti-Doping...
View ArticleNews of the Weird: Holy Handguns
Drug ethics, and city-funded lock-picking One of the many decisions greeting Pope Francis, as Salon.com pointed out, is whether to officially recognize a Patron Saint of Handgunners — as urged by a...
View ArticleNews of the Weird: Monopoly Money
Plus, the (tax) number of the beastIn March, Microsoft was fined 561 million euros (about $725 million) by the European Commission after, apparently, a programmer carelessly left out just one line of...
View ArticleNews of the Weird: The Snail Mail App
What to do with all that junk mailWait... What? A startup company in Austin, Texas, also serving San Francisco, promises to take its customers' incoming U.S. mail three times a week, photograph it and...
View ArticleNews Of The Weird: Undocumented Immigrant Gains Safe Harbor Thanks to Xbox...
Plus, Civil War veterans' benefits and roadkill couture Undocumented immigrant Jose Munoz, 25, believed himself an ideal candidate for President Obama's 2012 safe-harbor initiative for illegal-entry...
View ArticleNews of the Weird: Electric Chastity Belt
Plus, dripping wet jet-skiers and other security risksTo counter the now-well-publicized culture of rape in India, three engineers in Chennai said in March that they are about to send to the market...
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