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Strange But True Stories

In this big world there are many things which seem strange to us. Here are some of the best ones that we have found. Most of these strange but true stories come from newspapers.

In 1572, a pig which had killed a child was dressed in human clothes and put on trial. It was found guilty of the crime and was sentenced to death.

Hitting on the novel idea that he could end his wife's incessant nagging by giving her a good scare, Hungarian Jake Fen built an elaborate harness to make it look as if he had hanged himself. When his wife came home and saw him she fainted. Hearing a disturbance a neighbour came over and, finding what she thought were two corpses, seized the opportunity to loot the place. As she was leaving the room, her arms laden, the outraged and suspended Mr Fen kicked her stoutly in the backside. This so surprised the lady that she dropped dead of a heart attack. Happily, Mr Fen was acquitted of manslaughter and he and his wife were reconciled.

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Two West German motorists had an all-too-literal head-on collision in heavy fog near the small town of Guetersloh. Each was guiding his car at a snail's pace near the center of the road. At the moment of impact their heads were both out of the windows when they smacked together. Both men were hospitalized with severe head injuries. Their cars weren't scratched.

A Essex man was fined £10 for careless bicycle riding. When he was arrested, he was riding without his hands on the handlebars reading a newspaper.
He told the court, 'this is the only chance I ever get to read a newspaper.

TEN FIREMEN TO RESCUE 32-STONE MAN - It took ten firemen an hour to remove Tom Smith, an invalid who weighs thirty-two stone, when his house in New York caught fire. Window frames had to be taken out and a block and tackle was used to lower him to the ground, reports British United Press. He died of heart failure shortly after reaching hospital. - Evening paper

NAPLES, August 5. Lieutenant J. B. Barnes, a U.S. Navy jet pilot, has absent-mindedly made aviation history - he flew a secret jet fighter over the Bay of Naples while its wings were folded. Lieutenant Barnes noticed the folded wings in mid-air when the aircraft failed to respond as it should. He had been practising folding and unfolding the wings of his aircraft just before take-off. Once airborne, he decided to stick with his machine. He flew out over Naples Bay to avoid hitting the densely built-up city if he crashed, but managed to learn how to control the aircraft and brought it back to Naples Capodichino Airport for a perfect landing - Reuter. Financial Times

D U S S E L D O R F, Saturday - A British circus worker reported here that an elephant snatched his passport from his pocket with its trunk and ate it. The British Consul-General issued the man with a new one. - Reuter

Mrs Marion Beatrice Kellett, of Johannesburg, South Africa, who died last month, left the interest from $3,930 for the care of seven lizards. As each lizard dies, the principal is to be paid over to Mrs Kellett's husband. - Mississippi paper

An unnamed boy aged 13, in Washington D.C. used to turn in false fire alarms. He underwent psychiatric treatments to cure him of that, and he stopped doing it. Apparently he learned never to break the glass and pull the hook unless there actually was a fire. So - now he sets the house afire first, and has done it four times. - Baltimore Sun, quoted in Doubt

Penguins are able to leap over six feet into the air.

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