Weird News Files

The management at a factory producing Kalashnikov guns in Russia’s Kirov Oblast is paying its workers in food in place of their regular salaries.

A team of Japanese adventurers say they have discovered footprints they believe were made by the legendary yeti said to roam the Himalayan regions of Nepal and Tibet.

A UFO appears during a reporter’s broadcast on Moldova TV News.

A couple of days apart, sightings of UFOs over Manhattan and El Paso, Texas, show the same kind of formation taking place.

A Texas man calmly calls 911 after shooting his wife and explains she had been ridiculing him.

Every web site that I visit is blitzed with Penis Enlargement ads. Women’s faces looking with shock, surprise and horror in the direction of my crotch. Here’s a survey of some of those faces as well as some medical research on the myths of penis enlargement.

Bedford fireman Al Machado went beyond the call of duty to revive a cat he saved from a burning building: he gave it a mouth-to-mouth resuscitation!

A Malaysian woman who bought a shark from a local fisherman got home to discover two webbed-feet protruding from the creature. See the photos…

Street artist K-Guy put up this touching tribute for the economic good times, called “In Loving Memory of The Boom Economy.” It’s outside the Bank of England, Threadneedle Street, Central London.

Bringing affordable transportation to everyday people throughout Asia is high on the agenda of big car makers. This guy beat them to it.

A baby boy with eight toes on each foot was discharged from a hospital in Leizhou, southeast Guangdong province in China.

A prominent fashion designer has sparked outrage in Chile by dressing up models like the Virgin Mary – in some cases with ample, near-naked breasts.

Morgan Spurlock did this in Super Size Me, for about a year. But Karen Hanrahan has kept a McDonald’s hamburger since 1996. After 12 years, it still looks ready to eat. Frightening!

The Google Car recently had a run-in with a deer – and being the Google car, it was all captured on camera.

Doctors have spotted what looks like the face of a screaming man in an ultrasound of a testicular tumor.

An indigenous woman holds her child while trying to resist the advance of Amazonas state police who were expelling the woman and some 200 people from the Brazilian Amazon.

Sometimes Photo retouching goes terribly wrong. See some infamous Photoshop mistakes.

A Denver cop gets a little over-zealous in his pursuit of a suspected bank robber – he runs down the suspect as well as his fellow officer.

Some are speculating a link between the recent phenomenon of dead birds and fish, found in Louisiana and Arkansas, with the use of toxic dispersant chemicals by BP in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. It has been less than 6 months since mass amounts of these chemicals were used, time enough for the chemicals to work their way through the environment.

A Colorado woman has ballooned to 490 pounds because eating junk food gives her an ­orgasm.

Weird photos and weird signs are being emailed from in and around Beijing as China hosts the 2008 Olympic Games.

On the streets of Washington DC a lone Polar Bear tries to bring home the Global Warming message.

A Liquor store robber’s slapstick failure is caught by security cameras.

When it comes to cutesy and quirky, Japanese TV ads go where no one has gone before.
A father caterpillar and his son try to get the best tea leaves at the top of a tea plant.

As newspapers are going out of business daily… a revisit to 1981 when all of that seemed a long way off. This story was broadcast on KRON San Francisco.

A bunch of Brooklyn bees have been coming home looking flushed. Tests confirmed the bees were riddled with Red Dye No. 40.

Protesters in Cairo’s Tahrir Square use improvised protective gear to ward off the violent attacks of paid Mubarak supporters. Amazing photos from Der Spiegel.