German police confirm that they today have taken a seven month baby away from a couple in Bavaria and local child welfare investigators are looking into them after the couple put the child up for sale on Internet auction site Ebay. The description read, “Male baby almost 8 months old, sleeps well through the night [...]
Entries from May 2008
Baby For Sale on Ebay – Baby For Sale?!
May 25th, 2008 · 19 Comments
Tags: Crazy Auctions · Crazy People · Might Be True · Odd Ideas · Offbeat Stuff · Weird Criminals · Weird Folks
Mafia Supports the Girl Guides?
May 16th, 2008 · 10 Comments
A Girl Scout sold over 17,000 of the group’s signature cookies this year, shattering her troop’s old mark and probably setting a national record. But how did she do it, that is the question. Her father Fabio Gunazzenti is a local mafia don and it is thought that his reputation might have had something to [...]
Tags: Crazy People · Might Be True · Odd Accomplisments · Offbeat Stuff · Strange Business · Strange News
Airplane Ride in the Toilet?
May 13th, 2008 · 3 Comments
A New York man who says he was denied a seat on a five-hour jetBlue flight and was instead told to “hang out” in the plane’s bathroom has sued the airline for $2 million, saying he suffered “extreme humiliation.” The man, Gokhan Mutlu arrived to check in for a jetBlue flight from San Diego to [...]
Tags: Might Be True · Odd Accomplisments · Odd Celebs · Odd Ideas · Offbeat Stuff · Strange Business · Strange News
1,840 Crazy Nude Folks Walk into a Staduim
May 12th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Sounds like the start of a bad joke, but it is the most recent work by New York photographer Spencer Tunick which attracted over 1,800 people, wearing their birthday suits in Austria’s Happel Stadium on Sunday. The stadium will host seven of the Euro 2008 soccer championship matches being staged by Austria and Switzerland, including the June 29 [...]
Tags: Crazy People · Odd Accomplisments · Odd Ideas · Offbeat Stuff · Strange News · Weird Folks
Amazing Etch-A-Sketch Art
May 7th, 2008 · 7 Comments
Jeff Gagliardi created this work of wonder on an etch-a-sketch back in the 1970′s and has since created tons of amazing new works of art using only an etch-a-sketch. Look here to find more of his wonderful work.
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Weird Warning Label
May 5th, 2008 · 8 Comments
If you ever stumble onto this ‘open to the public’ farm in the Polish countryside – make sure to follow this warning!!! Creative credit: Billtvshow - Courtesy of PhotoShopContest.com
Tags: Might Be True · Odd Animals · Offbeat Stuff
No Barbie Dolls for You!
May 1st, 2008 · 2 Comments
A top Iranian judiciary official warned Monday against the “destructive” cultural and social consequences of importing Barbie dolls and other Western toys. Prosecutor General Ghorban Ali Dori Najafabadi said in an official letter to Vice President Parviz Davoudi that the Western toys was a “danger” that needed to be stopped. Authorities launched a temporary campaign [...]
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