FREAKY NEWS

Stories Too Bizarre To Make Up


I've never been much of a fiction reader, the real world is way too interesting.
To be led along through someone else's imagination, following a contrived story with an author's idea of direction is not for me when an entire world exists for us all to see. The World Wide Web has given this world to us at our fingertips and I see people using their computer to play Solitaire - instead of seeing all there is to see. Open your eyes and look outside - there's a big freaky world out there!

Some of my favorite news features have always been the odd, the weird, the unexplained, the unexpected, and the downright idiotic.
Borne of this interest were the Darwin Awards, tales of people removing themselves from the gene pool before reproducing.

I decided to snatch any news stories I could find from the 4 corners of the earth and put them here if they were sufficiently strange.
I'll add them here as I am able, and refer to them when the mood strikes.
Seriously, you can't make this stuff up.

Enjoy!

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Freaky Injury



Freaky Death

Husband's coffin kills woman in Brazil
SAO PAULO, Brazil - Police say a woman has died on the way to a cemetery when a traffic accident hurled her husband's coffin against the back of her neck. Police say 67-year old Marciana Silva Barcelos was in the front passenger seat of the hearse when the accident occurred Monday in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul. Barcelos died instantly. Her 76-year-old husband Josi Silveira Coimbra died Sunday of a heart attack while dancing at a party.
The driver of hearse and Barcelos' son suffered minor injuries.



Stupid/Drunk People

Alaska man says he accidentally stole a car
FAIRBANKS, Alaska - A motorist confronted by a state trooper said he was stunned when the officer told him the car had been stolen. Charles J. Schultz explained that he was driving his Chevy Cavalier and everything was fine. That's when the trooper informed Schultz that he was actually behind the wheel of a Ford Escort. Police charged Schultz with auto theft, felony driving under the influence and misdemeanor drugs misconduct. Police said the 27-year-old's blood-alcohol content was .166, more than twice the legal limit. It all started when Fairbanks police received a report shortly after midnight Friday that a Ford Escort had been stolen from the parking lot of a gentlemen's club. An officer spotted the stolen Ford two hours later - with Schultz driving. Schultz swore he had no memory of taking the wrong vehicle outside the club, according to a criminal complaint.

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Ga. man cleaning with blowtorch sets fire to house 
Associated Press
SARGENT, Ga. - Would-be cleaners take note: A blowtorch is not a good substitute for a broom. Coweta County authorities say Galen Winchell set fire to his west Georgia home Wednesday as he cleaned cobwebs from exterior eaves with a blowtorch. Winchell noticed the blaze when he saw smoke pouring from the attic. Coweta Fire Investigator James Gantt says the fire was contained to one part of the house, but the entire home had smoke and water damage. No one was hurt. No phone number was listed for Winchell.

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Simply Too Freaky To Categorize

More to come.....