Hope this guy does not walk away a diabetic after this 60 day carb extravaganza! Sticking to an all-potato diet for 60 days has earned Chris Voigt the National Potato Council’s Potato Man of the Year honor. The Columbia Basin Herald reports the award was presented to the Pasco man last weekend at the council’s [...]
Entries from January 2011
Super Carb Overload
January 18th, 2011 · 4 Comments
Tags: Odd Accomplisments · Odd Ideas · Odd Medical News · Of the Weird · Offbeat Stuff
Fox Shoots Hunter
January 17th, 2011 · 3 Comments
This is a great story out of Moscow for all you animal lovers! A wounded fox shot its would-be killer in Belarus by pulling the trigger on the hunter’s gun as the pair scuffled after the The unnamed hunter, who had approached the fox after wounding it from a distance, was in hospital with a [...]
Tags: Might Be True · Odd Accomplisments · Odd Animals · Of the Weird
Weird Auction – Coffin
January 16th, 2011 · 1 Comment
For the JFK-assassination conspiracy junkie who has everything: L ee Harvey Oswald’s coffin. Body not included. A Los Angeles auction house said on Tuesday it would sell the simple pine coffin in which the suspected assassin of President John F. Kennedy was buried for almost 20 years. Bidding will start at $1,000, but the item [...]
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Don’t Smoke Weed and Drive
January 14th, 2011 · 2 Comments
And definitely don’t carry 500 pounds of it and run a red light! Police stopped a driver for running a red light and discovered more than 500 pounds of marijuana inside his minivan, authorities said. Clement Hunter, 30, was awaiting arraignment on Monday following his arrest on drug charges, authorities said. Hunter ran a red [...]
Tags: Of the Weird · Offbeat Stuff · Weird Criminals
Weird Looking Coin is a Fail
January 13th, 2011 · 4 Comments
This coin is horrible!
Tags: Odd Celebs · Silly Products · Strange News
Drop the Snowball or We Will Shoot
January 12th, 2011 · 2 Comments
Two Berlin police officers were pelted by snowballs thrown by a group of about 40 youths but were able to fight them off with pepper spray, police said on Sunday. The officers were investigating a brawl early Saturday morning. They ignored demands from a group of about 25 youths to leave and were then attacked [...]
Tags: Offbeat Stuff · Weird Criminals · Weird Folks
Gay Birds Eat Mercury
January 11th, 2011 · 4 Comments
Researchers in Florida and Sri Lanka studied the effect of the metal in white ibises’ diets to find out why breeding was down. They found the higher the dose of mercury in the wading birds’ food pellets, the more likely a male bird was to pair with another male. Dr Peter Frederick from the University [...]
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Odd Statue
January 10th, 2011 · 3 Comments
I guess a Polish joke is not politically correct but they did spend $300,000 on this statue to commemorate a bear that apparently fought along side the army against the Nazis! The £200,000 monument is to commemorate the extraordinary life of Wojtek, a 6ft tall, 500 pound brown bear who served alongside Polish soldiers — [...]
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Winner of the Weird Disguise Award
January 9th, 2011 · 4 Comments
This guy spend $700 on this movie quality mask to disguise himself so he could rob banks. Now that he is going to jail I wonder how the black prision population will feel about this!
Tags: Odd Accomplisments · Strange News · Weird Criminals
Strange Battle
January 8th, 2011 · 6 Comments
All I can say to this one is OUCH!
Tags: Odd Animals · Offbeat Stuff · Scary Strange