It’s been a weird year so far so we decided to sort out the weirdest of the WTF, odd, and bizarre for your viewing pleasure. Without further adieu, here are The 20 Most Ridiculous News Stories from 2013!
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20. Vatican Purchases Europe’s Largest Gay Sauna
The Vatican seems to get itself embroiled in enough scandal that they’d be inclined to not create any more trouble for themselves, but they’ve done it again. The Holy See had made a seemingly innocuous, albeit pricey, real estate purchase at €23 million ($30 million), only to find that the Rome apartment block they bought contains Europe’s largest gay bathhouse. D’oh!
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19. Five Crashes in 12 Hours: Britain’s Most Dangerous Corner
Steve Cobbin and neighbour, Colin Brine, had to deal with crash after crash on Sunday night and into Monday morning outside of their cottages on the A371 at Evercreech, Somerset. The first accident happened Sunday afternoon when Cobbin returned home to find a car sitting in his driveway. The driver, a woman, was in distress after losing control of her car and doing a 180-degree spin before landing in the driveway. Three hours later, another car crashed through his neighbor’s yard and landed in his garden.
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18. Thousands of Caterpillars Found in Passenger Luggage at London Airport
It was a quite unusual day for the London-Gatwick Airport security team. On February 23rd they seized 200 pounds worth of dried caterpillars from a man’s luggage. The man, 22, from Burkina Faso in Africa, traveled to London via Istanbul, Turkey. He claimed that the insects were for his own “personal consumption”, BBC reports.
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17. Woman With World’s Longest Legs Now a Basketball Coach in Virginia
Svetlana Pankratova has always known that she was exceptionally tall, standing at 6’5″, but it wasn’t until 2002 that it occurred to her that she might hold a world record. Although she is not the tallest person in the world, the Russian native holds the Guinness World Record for the longest legs. Her record-breaking legs take up over four feet of her body height.
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16. 7-Year-Old’s Diet Plan Sheds Shameful Light on Our Culture
The childish scribbles and flowery stationary make it seem innocent, but this note calls attention to our dangerous appearance and weight-loss obsessed culture. The note was found by Amy Cheney, among the “Polly Pockets, friendship bracelets” in her daughter’s room, as though a diet plan fits in perfectly with a 7-year-old’s life. Cheney expressed her outrage in a blog upon finding her girl’s, referred to as Miss Seven, “diyet” plan.
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15. Researches Receive $1.5 Million Medical Grant to Learn Why Lesbians are Fat.
It also reveals that gay men seem to have the opposite trend as heterosexual males have nearly double the risk of obesity compared to homosexual males. This grant covets fund the research that will find the root cause of these obvious disparities.
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14. Dog Saves French Woman From Committing Suicide
A German shepherd stopped its owner from committing suicide after a French woman aimed a rifle on her chest. According to the local paper Le Figaro, the 63-year-old woman had a 22-caliber gun in her hand taking several shots before turning the weapon onto her herself.
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13. Move Over Loch Ness Monster, UK Welcomes ‘Beast of Tenby’
I was taking my dog for her evening walk across the south beach when she started acting out of character by howling and running round in circles,” Bailey told the Western Telegraph. “I ran up to her to see if she was ok and then I came across this hideous looking carcass. I could see it had little hair left on it’s decomposing body. Immediately I thought it was a horse but it had claws like a bear and a body of a pig. Surprisingly it didn’t smell.”
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12. The Internet is Obsessed with Jon Hamm’s D*ck
Jon Hamm’s private area is becoming less and less private by the day, or, by the Tumblr post. The big deal is that Hamm doesn’t wear underwear. He’s commando everywhere he goes — the dog park, the grocery store, and even on set. It’s causing a little bit of a stir in part because, well, people who love Hamm love that he goes commando, and they’re making websites about it.
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11. 12-Year-Old Girl Brings $20K to School in Michigan
The girl reportedly gave $200 to a fellow student and $500 to another. She claims she was given the cash by her neighbors. Police have the money now and are waiting until the neighbors can provide an explanation for having the cash and what it was going to be used for.
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10. Drunken Student Faces Community Service For Frying Hamster
Phil Brown, the prosecutor for White’s case, reported the story of what happened. On February 2 of this year, cops were called to a block of flats in the U.K.. Upon arriving, they came upon a drunken James White and got a whiff of a pungent odor. White proceeded to tell the officers: What, I f****** fried it? I fried it.
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9. Bowl Bought for $3 at Yard Sale Sells for $2.2 Million at Sotheby’s
The purchaser, London dealer Giuseppe Eskenazi, was likely thrilled with the buy, since there’s only one other bowl like it in known existence, and it’s locked away in the British Museum.
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8. Utah Couple Arrested for Putting Razor Blades in Doughnuts
Police Sgt. Chad Carpenter said that Condor later admitted that the couple purposely planted the razor blade pieces in the doughnuts so they could make money off of a settlement from the store. Condor even allowed one of his co-workers at a dollar store to bite into one of the doughnuts. The couple was arrested for filing a false police report as well as for aggravated assault.
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7. Penis-Less Man to Get One Made from Arm
Doctors will take a large skin graft from his arm, roll it up “like a Swiss roll,” and attach it to his pubic bone. A pump-powered implant will be necessary to fully complete the process. This will give him all of the functionality of a normal penis, including the ability to ejaculate.
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6. Man in Wheelchair Punches Pregnant Woman in Face
The 7-months pregnant woman was in an elevator at the station with another woman, and both were pushing strollers. Before the door could close, a man in an electric wheelchair forced his way in, running over the pregnant woman’s feet. After, she confronted him and an argument ensued, she told him she was going to call the police. At that point the man began physically assaulting her, punching her repeatedly in the face, head and stomach.
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5. 8-Year-Old Boy Marries 61-Year-Old Woman to Please Dead Grandpa
If we hadn’t done what my son had asked then something bad would have happened in the family. I didn’t have a problem with it because I know it’s what the ancestors wanted and it would make them happy. Sanele was fine and he was happy about the ceremony and it was what he wanted. He was happy to get married and very excited.
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4. Teacher Filmed Girls Showering in Bathroom for 10 YEARS
In total he was charged with 21 counts of various offenses against 11 different women, eight of them schoolgirls. The teacher, Russell Singleton, had developed what the judge called a “sophisticated” operation, involving a fake wall in the men’s toilets behind which there was a video camera and regular camera in front of a one-way mirror. The camera was pointed so that Singleton could record female students and teachers showering.
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3. African Hooker ‘Dies’ During Sex, Springs Back to Life in Coffin
a prostitute was found dead in a room in Manor Hotel in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. She reportedly died after collapsing during sex with a customer. Police proceeded to put her presumably dead body in a coffin, but they got the surprise of their lives when the hooker came back to life. The hooker, who has been identified as “MaNdlo,” reportedly freaked out the crowd that gathered around her body in the hotel. She began screaming the words, “You want to kill me,” since she reportedly felt that the police were trying to kill her. The hooker’s customer fled the scene as this madness occurred.
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2. Indiana Teen Stabs Dad After Being Told to Pull Up His Pants
The Daily Mail noted that after Cody heard this, he ignored the request. Then he walked into his kitchen, retrieved a knife, and stabbed his father in the left side of his chest. When the authorities arrived at the scene, they found the victim sitting in a pool of blood on the living room floor.
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1. 2-Year-Old Eats Used Condom at McDonald’s, Lawsuit Claims
The incident occurred in February 2012 when her son Jacquel picked up the used condom, ate it, and later coughed a part of it up. Anishi is filing the suit on behalf of Jacquel, and her other son, Jonathan, 3, who was playing in the area at the same time. Jacquel received medical treatment after the ordeal. The suit accuses the fast-food chain of not being sanitary and failing to properly maintain the area where children are playing, in addition to negligence with regard to “deviant activities” that were clearly going on in the restaurant.
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