UK Weird News

Man Divorces Wife After She Brings Home 550 Cats

Posted 05.25.2012

Read More: Weird Divorce Stories, Divorce Cats, Reasons to Get Divorced, Divorce Over Cats, Photo Galleries, Man Divorces Wife Over Hundreds of Cats, 550 Cat Divorce, UK Weird News, Man Divorces Wife Over Cats, Woman With 550 Cats, Video, Woman Has 550 Cats, Divorce News, Slidepollajax, Couple Divorce 550 Cats, Most Cats, Divorce News

Talk about one crazy cat lady. A man from southern Israel is divorcing his wife because she adopted 550 pet cats, the Times of Israel reported Wedn...

Read Whole Story

Naked Unicyclist Charged For Distracting Drivers

AP | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Texas, Video, Houston, Kemah, Dumb Crime, UK Weird News, Naked Unicylist, Weird Texas, Circus, Joseph Glynn Farley, Things You Can't Do Naked, Weird News News

KEMAH, Texas -- Police say a man arrested in a Southeast Texas city for riding his unicycle in the nude was distracting drivers and creating a hazard....

Read Whole Story

Japanese Ice Bra Aims To Keep Women Cool This Summer

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 05.10.2012

Read More: Cell Phones, Joeybra, Japanese Products, Japanese Ice Bra, Icebra, Bra, Bra Uses, Undergarments, Bra Storage, UK Weird News, Japan, Slideexpand, Bras, Cell Phone Storage, Weird News News

Ladies, forget pocket fans and frozen margaritas: There's a new way to keep cool this summer, and comes in your cup size. Japanese manufacturer Tr...

Read Whole Story

No More 'F---ing'? A Town Synonymous With Sex Might Change Its Name (NSFW)

Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: F--King Considers Changing Name, Video, Austria, F--King Austria, Slidepollajax, F--King Village, Slidewide, UK Weird News, F--King Town, Weird News News

The prank calls were the last straw. The Sun reports that residents of F--king, Austria are set to vote on whether to change their town's name. ...

Read Whole Story

WATCH: How This Man Learned 11 Languages

Posted 02.21.2012

Read More: Man 11 Languages, Man Learns 11 Languages, Man Speaks 11 Languages, Video, UK Weird News, Speak 11 Languages, 11 Languages, Weird News News

Been wanting to learn another language? Here's a great inspiration. Twenty-year-old Alex Rawlings can speak 11 languages fluently -- including Afrikaa...

Read Whole Story

Thief Sentenced For Urinating On Power Station Transformer, Knocking Out Electrity To 2,000 Homes

The Huffington Post | Andy Campbell | Posted 02.20.2012

Read More: Transformer Explosion, Video, UK Crime, Michael Harper, Dumb Crime, Urination Crime, Urination Blows Up Transformer, UK Weird News, Heroin, Don't Whiz on the Electric Fence, Burn Victim, Power Plant Explosion, Weird News News

This guy was no whiz kid. A heroin user was sentenced to a year in prison after he tried to rob a UK power station last year, only to suffer sever...

Read Whole Story

WATCH: 812-Pound Londoner May Be New World's Fattest Man

HuffPost Weird News | David Moye | Posted 02.13.2012

Read More: Weird UK, Video, Fattest Man Alive, Donna Simpson, Guinness World Records, Fattest Man, Anatomical Wonders, Manuel Uribe, UK Weird News, World Records, Keith Martin, Pauline Potter, Weird News News

Keith Martin may soon hold a new world record without even getting out of bed. Sadly, he'd probably prefer to be able to get out of bed. Martin ...

Read Whole Story

WATCH: Divorce Ejects Trekkie From Beloved Spaceship Apartment

Posted 01.27.2012

Read More: Nerd, Trekie Divorce, Funny, Video, UK Weird News, Star Trek Fan, Divorce, Trekie, Star Trek, Divorce News

One man boldly went where no interior designer had gone before -- but now, divorce is taking it all away from him. For the past 10 years, British ...

Read Whole Story

Man Driving Car With 3 Wheels Arrested For DUI

Posted 01.05.2012

Read More: Drunk Driving, Video, Man Arrested Driving Three Wheel, Barry Short, Barry Short Arrested, New Hampshire, Cars, New Hampshire Crime, UK Weird News, u.k. Weird News Car, Driving While Intoxicated, Weird News News

Not all the wheels were turning for Barry Short over the weekend. Police in New Hampshire arrested a man early Sunday morning after he drove a vehi...

Read Whole Story

Stephen Hawking: 'Women Are A Complete Mystery To Me'

Reuters | Posted 03.10.2012

Read More: Video, Steven Hawking on Sex, Steven Hawking on Women, University of Cambridge Centre for Theoretical Cosmology, Reuters, Steven Hawking, Steven Hawking Love Life, Biggest Mystery in the Universe, UK Weird News, Cambridge University, Weird News News

LONDON (Reuters) - The biggest mystery in the universe perplexing one of the world's best known scientists is -- women. When New Scient...

Read Whole Story

New Year Fireworks Accidentally Set Fire To Melbourne Landmark (VIDEO)

Simon Crisp | Posted 01.01.2012

Read More: Video, Weird News, Accident, Australia, Celebrations, Weird Photos and Videos, Fire, UK Weird News, New Year, Melbourne, 2012, Home News

2012 got off to a dramatic start in Melbourne -- when a misfiring celebratory firework is thought to have set fire to a landmark and arts centre. M...

Read Whole Story

Cross-Eyed Opossum And Other Unlikely Stars Of 2011

Reuters | Paul Casciato | Posted 03.01.2012

Read More: Year-in-Review, Video, Weird News, Reuters, Zenga Zenga, Heidi, UK Weird News, Cross-Eyed Opossum, Bunga Bunga, Weird News News

By Paul Casciato LONDON (Reuters) - Bunga Bunga, Zenga Zenga, a tweeting cobra and other wacky news capped a year that saw the capture ...

Read Whole Story

Dopey Drug Grower Decorated Cannabis Plant As Christmas Tree

Simon Crisp | Posted 12.24.2011

Read More: Cannabis, Weird News, Crime, Christmas, Criminal, Drugs, Weird Photos and Videos, UK Weird News, Pot, Holidays Canada, Christmas Tree, Weird News News

A cannabis grower who decided to decorate a 5ft pot plant as his Christmas tree, will now be spending Christmas behind bars. Kent Police say they d...

Read Whole Story

Is This The Cutest Puppy-Filled Christmas Scene Ever? (VIDEO)

Simon Crisp | Posted 12.24.2011

Read More: Puppies, Youtube, Video, Weird Photos and Videos, Weird News, UK Weird News, Animals, Puppy, Cute, Christmas, Weird News News

The internet is not short of cute animal videos, even yuletide-focused ones, but there will always be room for more… especially when they're this cu...

Read Whole Story

Rafael Nadal Pranks David Ferrer With Shaving Foam (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post UK | Posted 02.10.2012

Read More: Video, Prank, Tennis, Weird Photos and Videos, Weird News, UK Weird News, David Ferrer, Rafael Nadal, Prankster, Sport, Punked, Home News

Sure he was busy helping Spain beat Argentina in the Davis Cup this week, but tennis ace Rafael Nadal also found time to pull a prank on teammate, Dav...

Read Whole Story

Cain Pain

Malcolm Kushner | Posted 01.30.2012

Read More: Republican Candidate, Politics, Humor, Scandal, Sexual Harassment, Herman Cain, Herman Cain Sexual Harassment Allegations, Herman Cain Sexual Harassment, Herman Cain Ginger White, Herman Cain for President, Satire, UK Weird News, Comedy News
Malcolm Kushner

I did not have an affair with Herman Cain. There I've said it. I have not been having an affair with Herman Cain for a long time; many years, in fact. And yes, saying it does provide closure.

Read Post

Now Hiring Online: Nuns

Claudia Santini | Posted 01.29.2012

Read More: Italy, Italian Nuns, Poor Clares, Portici Nuns, Nuns, Santa Chiara, UK Weird News, Weird News News
Claudia Santini

"In any case, we use this media with a lot of moderation and attention, as we are, even if updated, still cloistered."

Read Post

What Is the Strangest Burial Marker in Existence?

Dr. Franklin Ruehl, Ph.D. | Posted 01.29.2012

Read More: Dr.Ruehl, Undead, Creature, Monster, Werwolf, Lycanthrope, UK Weird News, Video, Weird News News
Dr. Franklin Ruehl, Ph.D.

A strong candidate for this title would be a stone cross dubbed the "Wolfstone" on a grave in the Fichtel Mountains of Germany. In the 18th century, a local shepherd hired a hunter to kill a strange, huge wolf which had been devouring lambs in his flock.

Read Post

Did Padre Pio Fake His Stigmata Wounds?

Richard Schiffman | Posted 01.28.2012

Read More: Stigmata, Catholic Church, Miracles, Religion News, Religion, Saint Francis, Padre-Pio-Stigmata-Wounds, God, Padre Pio, Sri Ramakrishna, Religious Tolerance, Padre Pio Book, Padre Pio Stigmata, Weird-News-UK, UK Weird News, Culture News
Richard Schiffman

Was Padre Pio a divinely inspired holy man with supernatural powers? No mere journalist can presume to say. Did he create his own wounds for 60 plus years using carbolic acid? Not likely.

Read Post

Dark Horse Comics and Imprint Sequential Pulps Writer Teams Up With Artist Tim Burgard for New Tarzan

Alexandra Holzer | Posted 01.28.2012

Read More: Comic Books, Dark Horse Comics, DC Comics, Marvel Comics, Tarzan, Comics, Artist, Writer, Superman, Martin Powell, Tim Burgard, Frankenstein, Disney, Batman, UK Weird News, Weird News News
Alexandra Holzer

Come take a leap with me into the mind of a real-life veteran comic book man...beware you may end up in one of his novels so be nice and get yourself one of his books!

Read Post

A Touch of Knowledge: The Man with Two Mouths

Marc Hartzman | Posted 01.26.2012

Read More: Bowery, Hartzman, Laloo, Chang and Eng Bunker, Francesco Lentini, Parasitic Twin, A Touch of Knowledge, Freaks, Conjoined Twins, Three-Legged Wonder, Chang and Eng, Traveling Freakshow, Man With Two Mouths, Sideshow, Otto Tolpefer, Siamese Twins, UK Weird News, Weird News News
Marc Hartzman

The blonde, smooth-faced Otto Tolpefer sat on a platform drinking water with one mouth and simultaneously smoking a cigarette with the other.

Read Post

The Joy of Miniatures

Dylan Kendall | Posted 01.23.2012

Read More: Slidepollajax, Aesthetics, Art, Humor, Joy, Miniatures, Culture, Miniature Laptops, Mini Cars, Miniature Gifts, Miniature Horse, Miniature-Animals, Smallest Animals, World's Smallest Horse, UK Weird News, Culture News
Dylan Kendall

Like Alice's wonderland, the miniature fascinates us, entertains us and brings us joy. There is something inexplicably transcendent and amusing in that which is so tiny and yet so perfectly complete.

Read Post

The Tale Of The Miraculous Midtown Turkey

Charlie Carillo | Posted 01.23.2012

Read More: Midtown Turkey, Turkey Police Chase, Thanksgiving Turkey, New York Turkey, Herald Square Turkey, Runaway Turkey, UK Weird News, New York News
Charlie Carillo

I've been careful not to tell anybody this story for a long time, but I figure Harold is probably dead by now, and any cops who got caught up in Turkeyscam are long retired.

Read Post

Prince Philip's UFO Interest Inspires New Biography

Alejandro Rojas | Posted 01.16.2012

Read More: Ufo, Ufos, Prince Philip, Royal Family, UFO and Paranormal, British Royals, Extraterrestrials, Prince Philip Book, UK Weird News, Weird News News
Alejandro Rojas

Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh and husband to the queen of England, is also a fervent UFO aficionado.

Read Post

"Ghosts and Humans Yucking It up Over Toothpaste!" (VIDEO)

Alexandra Holzer | Posted 01.15.2012

Read More: Alan Landsburg, Spirits, In Search Of, Ghosts, Nbc, Hans Holzer, Paranormal, Medium, Psychic, Leonard Nimoy, UK Weird News, Weird News News
Alexandra Holzer

As you and I are here breathing in the now, is when one can communicate with the other side or a trapped soul which is what a Ghost is.

Read Post