Believe It Or Not…

Strange stories from around the world. Some silly, some stupid and some just plain undelievable.

  • Police nab bandit who used underwear as mask (Reuters) -

    A video grab shows Sharon Lain, with a woman's girdle wrapped around her face as a make-shift mask, robbing an Oklahoma McDonald's. Lain, 51, an unemployed woman who said she was desperate for money has been arrested on charges she robbed the McDonald's. REUTERS/Midwest City Police Department/HandoutReuters - An unemployed woman who said she was desperate for money has been arrested on charges she robbed an Oklahoma McDonald's with a white stretch girdle wrapped around her face as a makeshift mask.


  • Brewer claims world's strongest beer (Reuters) -

    A waiter takes a tablet of beer mugs on the opening day of Schweizerhaus beer garden in Vienna March 15, 2010. REUTERS/Heinz-Peter BaderReuters - A Dutch brewer with a penchant for competition has laid claim to creating the world's strongest brew: a beer that is some 60 percent alcohol by volume.


  • Hot weather shrinks size of German fries (Reuters) - Reuters - French fries in Germany could be significantly shorter this year due to the heatwave that has baked Germany and much of Europe this month, the German Farmers' Association (DBV) said on Friday.
  • Hamas targets women's underwear in modesty drive (Reuters) -

    A Palestinian woman walks next to mannequins outside shops in Gaza City July 28, 2010. REUTERS/Ismail ZaydahReuters - The Islamist rulers of the Gaza Strip have ordered lingerie shops to display more modesty.


  • PM Cameron calls time on jailhouse rock revival (Reuters) - Reuters - British Prime Minister David Cameron has said prisoners will not be allowed to hold parties behind bars after a minister proposed lifting a ban on arts events for inmates introduced by the previous administration.
  • Colorado man delivers pizza and saves heart attack victim (Reuters) -

    A pizza is removed from a wood-burning oven in Naples August 27, 2008. REUTERS/Ciro De Luca/AgnfotoReuters - A laid off paramedic who turned to delivering pizzas to make ends meet is credited with saving the life of a man who went into cardiac arrest just as a pizza was delivered to his door.


  • Escaped tiger found after massive South Africa search (Reuters) -

    A tiger looks on as it rests at the Lionsrock Big Cat Sanctuary near Bethlehem, South Africa April 26, 2010.REUTERS/Peter AndrewsReuters - Rangers captured an escaped tiger at a South African farm on Wednesday after a two-day helicopter search that had dominated news broadcasts.


  • NY "bouquet bandit" arrested for two bank robberies (Reuters) - Reuters - New York police arrested a man on Wednesday accused of robbing two banks -- with a bunch of flowers and a potted plant.
  • Fur farm foxes trained to combat rat plague (Reuters) -

    A silver fox looks out of its cage at the private farm in Rovnoye village, about 230 km (143 miles) southwest of Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk November 30, 2009. REUTERS/Ilya NaymushinReuters - Authorities in China's far west have bred and trained "an army" of silver foxes bought from a fur farm to fight a plague of rats threatening a huge expanse of grasslands, state media said on Wednesday.


  • Caves offer new tour -- in Klingon (Reuters) -

    A Klingon mask used as a prop from the television series Reuters - Staff at the Jenolan Caves west of Sydney have added a new out-of-this-world attraction -- a tour in the Star Trek language Klingon.


  • Churchill's dentures fetch nearly $24,000 (Reuters) -

    Sarah Prior holds a partial set of dentures used by former British leader Winston Churchill - described as the teeth that saved the world - after they were sold at auction in Aylesdham, England, Thursday for 15,200 pounds ($23,723.) The upper dentures, one of several sets specially made for the wartime prime minister, were crucial for maintaining his distinctively slurred speaking style famous from World War II-era radio broadcasts. The dentures were bought by a British collector of Churchill memorabilia, at three times the estimated price. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)Reuters - A partial set of British wartime Prime Minister Winston Churchill's gold-mounted dentures has fetched 15,200 pounds ($23,770) at auction, over three times the estimate.


  • Pub lets clients drink between the lines (Reuters) - Reuters - On the way home from a hard day's work, Ferenc Nagy often gets the urge to pop into his favorite boozer for another round of binge reading.
  • Teenager survives fall from 16th story balcony (Reuters) - Reuters - A 15-year-old New Zealand boy has survived with minor injuries after falling 16-storeys from the balcony of his family's apartment onto a concrete floor, New Zealand media reported Monday.
  • "Darth Vader" strikes NY bank (Reuters) -

    An unidentified man dressed as Darth Vader is seen robbing a Chase bank branch in Setauket, New York in this July 22, 2010 surveillance camera frame grab. REUTERS/Suffolk County Police - HandoutReuters - The Force was with a man when he robbed a bank wearing a Darth Vader mask and a cape.


  • Former top diplomat Rice opts for Mozart concerto (Reuters) - Reuters - Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice abandoned international affairs for a Mozart piano concerto on Tuesday, teaming up with Soul legend Aretha Franklin to perform at a charity concert.

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