True   But   Strange

Fred Loose has set a new world record by donating about100 bodyfuls of blood. In 800 visits to a click in Potsdam, Germany, Mr. Loose, 58, has given up 845 pints.

 

Award of the year. Buganda Kingdom, one of the strongest monarchs in the world is to introduce an award for girls who marry when virgins.

 

Two murderous devil-worshipping vampires laughed as they were locked up for a total of 28 years on 1st February 2002 in UK. Daniel and Manuela Ruda also mocked the sobbing mother of a pal they "sacrificed" for Satan. The couple were sent to a separate secure hospitals after a court decided they were more mad than bad. The pair lured 33-year-old  - friend Frank Hackert to their flat near Bochum, Germany. He was battered with a hammer, slashed 66 times with a machete and had a five-pointed star carved on his stomach. The Rudas drank his blood, dumped his body in a coffin in which Manuela slept - then had frenzied sex.

 

A dad who last saw his grown-up son when he was a baby was tracked down to Australia, Sydney - just in time to save his son's life. Trucker David Woodhouse, 58 had not seen his son for 34 years but leapt on a plane back to Britain to give him a Kidney.

 

Two brothers are claiming a world record after breeding a goldfish as big as a pet cat in UK.

 

A girl held for 9 years by a kidnapper. A violent kidnapper snatched a little girl and held her captive in his bedroom for nine years. Japanese Nobuyuki Sato, 39, forced the nine-year-old into his car as she walked home from school.

 

A wife was chained in dog kennel. A peasant fed up with his wife's nagging kept her chained in a dog kennel for six years. Chinese Huang Enzai, 35, only saw her to feed her and have sex. She even had a baby boy, now fice, in the kennel and brought him up there. The wife was freed after being found by a reporter, who alerted the police in Guangzhou province, China.

 

You might not want to eat off it but your toilet seat is like to to be the cleanest surface in your home. New research has found your loo seat is even more hygienic than kitchen chopping boards. In fact, the cooking area is probably awash with germs - with dishcloths containing up to 1 million times more bacteria that the average toilet seat. The highest concentrations of bacteria were found on sponges, dishcloths and kitchen tap handles and in the bath and sink drain area. The report recommended single use paper household towels as they did not transfer bacteria.

 

A daredevil has given up trying to win a £21,000 bet for spending ten days locked in a room with a deadly snake. Police in Taiwan rescued an exhausted Lin Ching-feng, 28, after three days. 'I was so frightened the snake would bite me,' he said.

 

A German executive last week entered a Pub (bar) in central London and bought the 200 customers drinks worth £42,000 (Ksh.4.5 million) and gave the waiters £4,000 (almost half a million Kenya shillings) paid everything and left.

 

On Sunday 4th November, 2001 in London something strange happened. It was early on Sunday morning at Finsbury Park underground station. Two black men were going to church. As they were waiting for the train at the station, all at sudden the train approached at a high speed. A crazed stranger pushed one of the black men under a speeding train. The victim miraculously survived when he slipped through a gap in the tracks into an inspection pit as the train rumbled over him. He suffered burns from contact with a live rail and is recovering in hospital. The attacker - who had pounded on the stranger from behind without exchanging a word - fled from the platform at Finsbury Park, North London, vaulted a ticket barrier and rain out of the station. He was chased but escaped through side streets.

 

A man's hand was sliced off with a samurai sword after a row in a Chinese restaurant about the size of his meal. The 27-year-old and a pal were eating in a Liverpool restaurant, UK when a diner mocked them for only having a starter. The pair were later confronted in the street by the man, wielding a baseball bat, and another thug who slashed the victim with the sword. His pal managed to escape. The man was taken to hospital where the doctors were trying to sew the hand back on.

 

A cheating cabbie (tax) who ripped off passengers by trebling his fares got rid of evidence when police challenged him - by EATING a bill in Prague, Czechoslovakia.

 

The girl in a rush morning hour who swallowed a toothbrush. It is a story that takes some swallowing. But Vania Lucchesi 23, has the X-rays to prove it. In her rush to get ready for college, it seems the trainee teacher stumbled in the bathroom and swallowed down her toothbrush. Doctors - once they had got over their astonishment - had to operate to remove it from her stomach.

 

MPs are being issued with anti-snoring air purifiers so they don't make a noise when they nod off during debates in Bucharest, Romania.

 

Women gossip about TEN times as many subjects as men - and it helps them relieve stress. Men chatting together cover just four topics - sport, girls, jokes and work. But women discuss up to 40 subjects - from family and friends to music and politics - a poll revealed. Psychologist Professor Petra Boynton said women use gossip to solve problems. 

 

A UK lady Sherry is 33 years, earns 50,000 pounds (Ksh.5 million a year) and says she will NEVER get married or have children.

 

A woman has made history by becoming pregnant with triplets - while already expecting a child. The 20-year-old's first child, a boy, is due in two weeks but the triplets are not expected until January 2002. Doctors at St. Eugenio Hospital in Rome, where the infants will be delivered, said such a birth was unprecedented.

 

A tree has received a letter from the council in UK saying it is not to be cut down. The two-page letter, starting "Dear The Tree", appeared on the trunk after locals protested the lime tree should not be cut down. The letter, signed by the head of Southampton City Council head of legal services was dated 28th September, 2001. It was pinned on the tree. Message clear and loud "We are writing to say you will not, after all, be axed." The letter has caused a lot of amusement among the locals.

 

A woman died and five other people were injured on Wednesday 3rd October, 2001 after a crazed petrol bomber attacked his ex-lover in a shop. The man doused his former partner - believed to be an antiques dealer - in petrol and set her alight, screaming: "Read about it in the newspapers."

 

Referee Brian Savill shocked footballers by scoring himself and letting the goal stand. The incident happened in a cup tie between Wimpole 2000 and a team from Earls Colne in Essex. Wimpole were losing 18-1 when Brian 47, volleyed home for them from a corner. He said: "It was done in good humour. I knew I could get away with it in the context of the game." Wimpole still lost 20-2. And Brian is in trouble. As secretary of his local referee's society he will have to send himself a letter of warning about his future conduct.

 

A bank executive, Richard Snow quits his £100,000 (Ksh.10 million) a year to run a village post office for only £20,000 (Ksh.2 million) so that he can get joy of his life.

 

A farmer in UK is cashing in on fears of an all-out world war by selling places in his own giant underground BUNKER - at £30,000 (Ksh.30 million) a time. The shelter was built in the 50s to house top Government officials in the event of a nuclear attack. Present Mike Parrish is offering up to 200 places in the bunker. It has a camouflaged entrance, its own power and fresh water supplies, an air filtration plant and has 10ft-thick walls. It also has a TV studio, dormitories and a canteen.

 

A reader smuggled a library book called "The Royal Navy" back after borrowing it for 38 years in Ripley, Derbyshire - dodging a fine of £138,700 (Ksh.140 million).

 

In Afghanistan the life is of cruel rule of soldier monks called Taliban. Life expectancy is 45 years and infant mortality is 15 per cent. The average monthly income is £2.50 (Ksh.260). Thieves have limbs amputated; adulterers are stoned to death and those caught having pre-marital sex are whipped publicly. Muslims who convert to other religions face the death penalty. All Hindus must wear a badge so they can be easily identified. The only public entertainment allowed is Friday afternoon executions, which take place in Kabul's football stadium. Criminals are shot or hanged and thieves' hands are cut off. One woman had her thumb amputated for wearing nail varnish. Television is banned, as is listening to anything other than the Taliban's own Shariat radio station, which broadcasts fanatical religious teachings. The Taliban also ban heeled shoes, lobsters, flying a kite, neck ties, playing chess, playing music, surfing the Internet, cutting one's beard, having a "US or British hairstyle" or laughing when one is not meant to. Eight Christian agency workers are being held in prison on charges of trying to convert Moslems.

 

A mouldy biscuit from the Titanic Ship is set to be sold for a round £2,000. Titanic sank in 1912.

 

A wounded chef told yesterday how he was savaged by a dead shark.... in the back of a van. Darren Smith, 24, was taking the 7ft beast to a restaurant when he had to brake sharply to avoid a crash. The 11lb permeable shark shot out of the ice box it was packed in. Dozy Darren tried to shove it back - and caught his right hand in its razor-sharp teeth. The "bite" severed an artery and almost sliced off Darren's thumb. He was covered in blood and had to have 17 stitches in hospital. Darren, who works at the Dolphin restaurant in Newquay, Cornwall, admitted: "I felt a right idiot. I must be the first person in history to be attacked by a shark on dry land - and a dead one at that. The nurses at the hospital couldn't stop laughing when I said how it had happened."

 

A British boy, little Jack Walter carries his own life support system on his back. The 18-month-old, who has a rare heart condition, wears a special ransack that pumps lifesaving drugs into his veins every three minutes, 24 hours a day. Jack has primary pulmonary hypertension, which means the blood vessels in his lung are too small for the blood to flow, causing pressure in the heart to build up to four times the normal level. The medication in the backpack - kept cool by ice packs which his parents Steve and Diane have to change every six hours - opens up the affected vessels.

 

A ram (sheep) worth £50,000 (KSh.6 million) was a victim of foot and month crisis. The owner Mr. Robert Cowperthwaite, of North Yorks, UK admitted that he has received the massive sum in compensation.

 

Japanese scientists have made a statue - the smallest ever created - using a sophisticated laser technique. It measures 10 micrometres long by 7 micrometres high. A human hair is 100 micrometers wide.

 

Doctors removed 222 rusty nails from a man's belly after he complained of stomach ache. Medics spent more than an hour removing 26oz of nails, keys and coins from Gezahenge Debebe's stomach after an X-ray showed it was crammed with metal. Debebe, 40, was thought to have eaten the items during his 20 years as a mentally ill patient at a hospital in Tibebe, Ethiopia.

 

Prince Jefri, brother to Sultan of Brunel (3 years ago was the richest man in world) has been sued by his brother for for misappropriating $15 billion (KSh.1,800 billion). The playboy, now with a debt of $11.2 billion is said to have been spending more than £500,000 (KSh.60 million) a day. It is said that when Jaguar cars launched its preposterously fast X1220 at £419,000 a time, the Prince ordered four. He has now broken scion of the world's wealthiest Islamic dynasty, which claims to have governed it for 600 years.

 

A woman gave her £1 million (KSh. 120 million) island home to a wildlife trust for a single peppercorn. Spinster Barbara Atkins bought St. George's Island in UK for £22,000 with her sister Evelyn in 1964. She received many requests in the year 2000 to sell it, including one from a theme park owner who offered to make her a millionaire. But this year (2001) she said she was going to bequeath the island to the Cornwall Wildlife Trust. The lease was signed in July this year for an annual rent of one peppercorn until Miss Atkins, 84 dies.

 

It could be the ultimate in bad sportsmanship. Dominoes player Ethem Sahin was enjoying a quiet game with friends at his local coffee shop when a cow fell through the roof and landed on top of him. He was knocked unconscious, broke his leg and needed seven stitches in his head. 'When I came round and my friends told me what happened, I couldn't believe it,' he said. The cow had been grazing when it wandered on to the roof of the coffee house, which is built into the side of a hill, and caved the roof in. Mr. Sahin's wife, Rahime, said: 'When they told me a cow fell on top of my husband, I thought they were kidding. May God protect us from a worse accident.' Mr. Sahin is recovering in hospital in Nevsehir, Turkey. The cow was unhurt.

 

Mr. Kidman of Wales UK clothes' valued more than his house. When an insurance man arrived at his house, he valued his clothes for £37,500 while he value his house for £35,000.

 

Lightning kills three husbands: Bulgarian widow Martha Matika's husband Randolph was killed by lightning. But she got married again to a young man called Charles Martaux. Sadly, though, Charles, too, was struck by lightning and died. The double tragedy drove poor Martha into depression; she was treated for it by a doctor, who cheered her up to such an extent that she fell in love with him, and they married. Unfortunately, the doctor went outside during a thunderstorm and was killed by a flash of lightning.

 

£4,000 (about Ksh. half 480,000) to buy a designer baby: Fertility experts has revealed that they are using a technique which all-but guaranteed couples could choose the sex of their babies. The new method sorts sperm to increase the chances of having a girl from 50:50 to more than nine times out of ten. US researchers says the technique is intended for couples who carry inherited diseases, such as muscular dystrophy or hemophilia, which they could pass on to a baby boy.

 

A mum of seven who married the same man three times has dies exactly a year after their final wedding. Pat Jones, 48, was found dead in bed hours after celebrating with delivery driver Barry, 51. Barry said on July 6, 2001 "I loved her so much I married her three times."

 

Two twin girls from Bournemouth, UK went shopping in different directions and ended-up buying the same items. One went shopping in London and one in  Southampton and both will return with the same purchases.

 

The biggest church in UK is KICC in East London over 7,000 members. They they bought 8 acres of land to build a church for £300,000 (about KSh. 3.6 billion) without borrowing money from bank and again this year they bought another one and half acres from Sainsbury next to the eight acres to make nine and half acres again for 300,000 without a loan from the bank.

An albino chimpanzee with soft which fur and huge eyes, one blue, and one brown has been born in Sierra Leone. It is the only albino chimpanzee ever recorded, the real wonder is that she is alive at all.

 

AVicar preached his way into the Guinness Book of Records in July 2001 with a sermon lasting more than 27.5 hours. The Rev. Chris Sterry, 46 who started his marathon sermon at Whalley Parish Church, Lancs was aiming to preach on for a total of 36 hours.

 

ASenior Officer in the British Army says they cannot get army materials when doing recruitment because the kind of recruits they get cannot obey nor understand their tusks.

 

A painted picture known as "The Rays Of The Sun" which had not been seen in public since 1895, was sold to a mystery bidder for £10.1 million  (about Ksh. 10 billion) in a London auction on 25th June 2001.

  

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A Shetland pony has given birth to a stripy foal after mating with a zebra. Experts are now unsure whether the nine-day-old should be called a Zetland or a Shebra. The unusual birth came about when the zebra and the Shetland, Tilly, were put in a field together to keep each other company. When the zebra was moved on to be with other mares, Jim Peet, the owner of an ostrich farm near Penrith, Cambria, UK, agreed to look after Tilly, unaware she was pregnant. 'We had no idea this would happen,' he said. Mr. Peet said he hoped the foal, yet to be named, would draw visitors to his farm which has been closed since March because of the food-and-month crisis. June 26, 2001.

 

Twice-wed Mr. Rod Stewart, a British has called for nuptial (wedding) vows to be treated "like a dog licence" - and renewed every year. The rocker claimed couples could no longer be expected to love, honour and obey each other 'til death do us apart. He demanded the sacred institution of marriage should instead be updated to fit in with the reality of modern life.

 

A housewife is seeking a divorce after the family's pet talking bird started dropping clues about her husband's illicit affair. The mynah bird began saying things like 'Be patient', 'I love you' and 'Divorce' after the woman returned from a month's visit to her parents. Already suspecting her husband of adultery, she said the bird became particularly talkative when the telephone rang and its unusual new vocabulary confirmed her fears. The Chinese woman took the pet to a law office in her home town of Chongquing, hoping it could be used as a witness in court, but staff were not optimistic. Lawyer Wu Di told her: 'The judges are unlikely to rule against your husband based only on the mynah's words.'

 

A bride Jane ditched her groom Stuart for his Brother Campbell on their wedding night returns back to her Stuart - after her lover died five years later at 34 years old. Stuart said that he has forgiven her and they will live together and bring up his brothers children although he had them with his wife Jane.

America's brightest women, desperate to pay soaring Ivy League college fees, are selling their own eggs to infertile couples for up to £70,000 (KSh.8.4 billion).

 

In Austria, couples will soon need a license to have a child, just as they do if  they own a TV or a dog.

 

A student doctor was furious with his bank - when it gave him £26 million (about Ksh.3.2 billion) by mistake. Mutasim Mohamed told Allied Irish Bank about its error - but his branch repeatedly insisted the money was his. What was more, the sum had grown with interest to £33 million. Dr. Mohamed, a 35-year-old immigrant to Ireland from the Sudan, one of the world's poorest countries, said: "Let them keep their millions and leave me alone to get on with my studying. It is causing me a lot of anxiety."  spokeswoman for his branch in Bantry, Co Cork, said the confusion had been due to a technical bug. She added: "The matter has now been rectified. There was an operational error."

 

A girl of 12 years is expecting a baby and doesn't know which of her FIVE lover is the father. Police have now arrested the men, aged between 16 and 26, and say they could be charged with rape. The identity of the father-to-be will only be known after DNA tests on them all.

 

 A teacher was paid £50,000 (Ksh.6 million) to stay at home for two years after bosses found out her qualifications didn't up. Lorraine Biddlecombe taught children for 10 years before it was discovered she didn't any qualifications.

 

An American California tycoon Mr. Dennis Tito has paid £14 million  (about Ksh.1.7 billion) for 6-day ride to Russian International Space Station which is 245 miles away from our planet earth. The rule of the game, his family should sue the Russians incase of anything, he will have to pay for anything he breaks in the Soyuz Spacecraft. Tourist in to the orbit. He came back to earth safely and they were welcomed with an apple and they said he has been to paradise, a dream from his childhood.

 

Britain conducted census on 29th April 2001. The forms sent out would cover the distance from London to South Africa.

 

Walking pin-cushion Elaine Davidson is the most pierced person in the world. Her face has more holes than a teabag. In just three years since taking up her bizarre hobby, she has had 620 tiny holes drilled in her body. But the shop owner from Edinburgh won't be happy until she has 1,000 notches to festoon with studs. She is originally from Portugal.

 

The world's first self-heating, ready-to-drink can of coffee is to go on trial. Nestlé's 'hot when you want' coffee will be on offer from the end of May. A button on the base of a standard sized 330ml can activates a quick-lime and water reaction in the inner membrane.

 

Carpenter Richard Pickles 43 has come up with a dead good idea - the bookcase that doubles as a COFFIN. The coffin is being  used as bookcases until needed when he dies to bury him.

A Punch that cost UK’s Boxer Lennox £50m (about Ksh. 6 billion).

 

The Queen was left distraught on her 75^th birthday – by the death of her favourite dog corgi. Seventeen-year-old Kelpie was put down at Windsor Castle where Her Majesty has been staying over the Easter break. The queen had to make the heart-breaking decision to call a vet to aid her pet, which was suffering from illness and the effects of the old age. Insiders said she was “very sad and upset” after the drama.

 

Just answer 15 questions and you get 1 million (about Ksh. 120 million) that in UK ITV TV programme “Who Want to Be a Millionaire?” – So far two people only have got it.

 

A council in United Kingdom is planning to dump bodies in graves without coffins because it is safer for the environment. Chester City Council wants to bury people with only a woolen shroud to cover them.

 

During London Marathon on 21April  2001, Angera 34, and Nigel 48 get married on the run. After running for 25 miles they stopped marry in alternative Christian service a mile from the finishing line. The 20-minute ceremony watched by family and friends. They could be seen by spectators waving a “Just Married” banner to the finish line.

 

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