Archive for the ‘bizarre’ Category

Written by OddCulture on Wednesday, December 5th, 2007 in Florida, accidents, bizarre, crime, travel.
“I don’t understand why this hasn’t ended up on ‘CSI: Miami’ yet” - Jim Cramer
New York Times has a story about Seth Tobias, Circle T hedge fund manager, found dead in his pool at his Jupiter, Florida mansion.
Mr. Tobias, a native of Philadelphia, once worked at Cramer’s former money-management firm. He formed Circle T in [...]

Written by OddCulture on Monday, December 3rd, 2007 in Religion, Russia, bizarre, culture, travel.
The Seattle Times has a story about the sect called the True Russian Orthodox Church, which went underground a few weeks back to “save themselves during the time of the apocalypse”, which they state will come in May of 2008. The group of 29 people, including four children, has threatened to set fire to themselves [...]

Written by Bill G on Friday, November 30th, 2007 in Frisky Friday, bizarre, funny video, mature, travel.
2 Girls, 1 Cup: Not a flavor you’ll find at Baskin Robbins.
Source: The Smoking Gun:
Been wondering about the identity of the auteur behind the “2 Girls, 1 Cup” video that has been making millions of Internet users gag? Well, the repulsive video–which has become such an online sensation that it has been knocked off by [...]

Written by OddCulture on Monday, November 26th, 2007 in Religion, accidents, bizarre, culture, travel.
Source: BreitBart and others.
A New Zealand woman drowned in a family exorcism ceremony and her younger cousin had her eyes gouged by relatives in an attempt to lift a curse, a newspaper reported on Monday. Janet Moses, 22, had her eyes scratched and water syringed into them before drowning in front of 40 relatives during [...]

Written by OddCulture on Tuesday, November 20th, 2007 in bizarre, culture, food, funny video, travel.
Yes, sit on toilets and eat food out of toilets! Brilliant!
We love the customer quotes:
“We’ve never eaten on toilets before, even at home!”
“I like the toilets! It’s fresh idea to put food in these toilet-like containers. My family and I came here together.”
More about bizarre Asian restaurants here.

Written by OddCulture on Thursday, November 15th, 2007 in bizarre, culture, travel.
A house shaped like a toilet is poised to go public in South Korea. The house under construction in Suwon, south of Seoul, is up for grabs to all comers at $50,000 U.S. dollars a night to raise cash for a campaign to help bring sanitation to developing nations.

Written by OddCulture on Wednesday, November 14th, 2007 in bizarre.
Source: Local 6
A strange blue cloud seen floating and darting around customers, freezing for 30 minutes and then speeding from an Ohio gas station, remains unexplained even though it was caught on security cams.
The ghostly image was seen moving near and over cars at a Marathon gas station located near the corner of State Road [...]

Written by OddCulture on Monday, November 12th, 2007 in accidents, bizarre, disasters, funny video.
American flags fell to the ground around Hillary at a press conference.
Quite an omen, isn’t it?

Written by OddCulture on Wednesday, November 7th, 2007 in Religion, bizarre, culture, surgeries, travel.
Source: Daily Mail (UK)
Doctors in India have successfully operated on a 2-year-old girl born with four arms, four legs and extra internal organs. A team of around 30 medics removed what amounted to Lakshmi Tatma’s headless identical twin sister who was joined at the pelvis and who did not develop and separate properly in the [...]

Written by OddCulture on Friday, November 2nd, 2007 in bizarre, surgeries.
From Daily Mail:
Now a list of the most amusing, provocative and outrageous experiments of modern science has been compiled by author Alex Boese, who scoured research journals, books and university archives. Topics covered include what happens when you give an elephant LSD and how to make a turkey frisky. Featured in this week’s New Scientist [...]
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