Archive for September 2009
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This is a Robbery
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DENTON, Texas -
This one really leaves you scratching your head. When a young lady reported to her job at the local Pizza Patron on a Friday night, she had no idea that the shift would probably be the scariest moments of her life. How many people can actually say they have been robbed while at work? Three disguised assailants came into the Pizza Patron. While the robbery was in progress another Pizza Patron worker made a bold move and struck one of the robbers, knocking him out, and knocking off his wig and sunglasses.
It was at that point that the first young Pizza Patron worker realized it was her father behind the disguise and the other two brilliant bad guys were none other than her mother and husband. The three genius assailants were able to escape, but were all apprehended within 14 minutes of the robbery.
It was later determined that Pizza Patron worker had no idea what her loving family was up to. She was just the lucky one who was born and raised into such a winning family, then decided to marry equally well.
The Moral of the story: You know you’re white trash when you rob your own wife/daughter’s work place.
© 2009 StrangeRush.com
WICOMICO CHURCH, Virginia -
You gotta give this little guy credit for trying. He seemed to be trying to do the right thing. With his mother asleep at 7:40am, and this little six year old having just missed his school bus, he figured he’d take matters into his own hands and get himself to school, in his family’s 2005 Ford Taurus.
He gave it a valiant effort, but didn’t quite make it. He ran off the road several times before putting the car into an embankment and utility pole. He was not wearing seat belt, but luckily only sustained minor injuries.
The moral of the story: When your child is only six years old, get your lazy *%# out of bed and walk him to the bus stop.
© 2009 StrangeRush.com
FORT WORTH, Texas -
Are you kidding me? This is hilarious. At first I thought this story would be an embarrassment to the US Army and Specialist Zachary Boyd, but it seems it may have made a bit of a cult celebrity out of Specialist Boyd (the Army may still be a little embarrassed though).
As the story goes the Fort Worth soldier was taking an afternoon nap when his unit came under fire from the Taliban. Deciding he didn’t want to waste time putting on his uniform, Boyd jumped up, put on his bulletproof vest and helmet but decided he would go to this dance with what he napped in: his red shirt, flip-flops and pink boxers. Yes, you read it correctly, PINK boxer shorts. Boyd was pictured (see below) with two fellow soldiers on a hill, hiding behind sandbags, engaged with the enemy.
Boyd said he first thought he would get in some trouble for his inappropriate attire, but said he has since been praised for his courage. And the Army is going to display the boxers in the 1st Infantry Division museum at Fort Riley, Kansas.
The moral of the story: If you want to be a ‘different kind of’ military hero, make sure you pack some pink boxers before you deploy.
© 2009 StrangeRush.com
JEFFERSONVILLE, Indiana –
What a night Jeffersonville City Council’s attorney, Larry Wilder had. Or should we say, it appears he had. Wilder is not exactly sure what happened, all he can say at this point is he’s ‘embarrassed’. On Tuesday night Wilder went out with friends for drinks, then dinner, then more drinks. He was later dropped off at home by a client’s limo. And the rest is history. On Wednesday morning, Wilder’s neighbor found good ol’ Larry asleep, headfirst in the neighbor’s garbage can. I could be wrong, but it sounds like someone slipped Lawrence some Roofies.
Hey, Larry, I’d be embarrassed too.
The Moral of the story: If you’re gonna black out, make sure someone gets you into your house first.
© 2009 StrangeRush.com
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia -
All too often marriages end in divorce, with assets being split down the middle. And that is exactly what happened with this Cambodian couple. This story is nothing less than bizarre. After 18 years of marriage, 42 year-old husband Moeun Sarim, and 35 year-old wife Vat Navy decided it was time to split once and for all. He told her he wanted a divorce and she obliged him. Moeun Sarim had become very jealous of his wife’s relationship with a village policeman. Although, Vat denied any extramarital affair, her husband still insisted on a divorce despite village official’s attempts to mend their differences.
This is were it gets really strange. In the details of the divorce, Moeun Sarim brought his relatives, saws in hand, to the house and began sawing the entire 20-by-24 1/2 foot, wood and tile house, in half. With village officials and police on hand, Moeun Sarim and his family members completely sawed his half of the house apart from hers and proceeded to carry each and every piece of debris to his parents’ house nearby. Now that sounds like one pissed off dude.
The Moral of the story: If your wife has a policeman for a friend, divorce her immediately.
© 2009 StrangeRush.com
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Long Live Dungeons & Dragons
0 Comments | Posted by Ryan in Deadbeat Parents, The Best of StrangeRush.com
Nevada-
Some people just need to have their reproductive organs removed. Take for example this winning duo residing somewhere in the sunny Nevada desert. Michael Straw was unemployed, but had come into a $50,000 inheritance which he and his wife Iana Straw were living off of. Michael used part of his newly found riches to buy computer equipment and a large Plasma TV so they could thoroughly feed their addiction to video games.
The problem with this story is that Michael and Iana were not the only two people living in their home. They had a 22 month old son and 11 month old daughter. The elder Straws became so obsessed with video games, particularly the classic Dungeons and Dragons, that they completely neglected their precious little tykes, and nearly killed them both. The Straws were unable to tear themselves away from the dungeons nor stop slaying the dragons long enough to feed or bath their little ones.
According to reports the home was a complete mess and one of the children would not stop crying. The young lad was treated for starvation and a genital infection. He had such a lack of muscle development that he had difficulty walking. His little sister suffered from a mouth infection, very dry skin, and severe dehydration. She had to have her head shaved because her hair was completely saturated with cat urine.
I feel comfortable in unanimously electing this tag-team duo the obvious winners of the Deadbeat Championship Belt. Let’s all pray that no one ever introduces them to Super Mario Brothers.
The moral of the story: Some 1980′s games just never go out of style.
© 2009 StrangeRush.com
This will be one of those rare posts that does not directly relate to some strange, weird, odd, unusual, bizarre, or crazy story. I guess you could say this whole thing started for me back in April of 2008. One afternoon I was at work on my cell phone, killing time, flipping through news stories as I usually did on the mobile version of CNN. There it was, the one story that caught my attention and held it tightly for several weeks, as it did the rest of the internet and drama hungry segments of the world.
As sick and disgusting as it was and still is, Austrian ‘Father Of The Year’ nominee, Josef Fritzl (more on him later) started this obsession of mine into the strange world that surrounds us. On that day in April of 2008 I had the idea that it would be fun to collect the strangest stories I could find on the internet and post them in a blog. So I watched the news and started collecting…..and collecting……and collecting. A thousand to fifteen hundred stories later here I am with enough material for two to three years of this website. And the great news is there is no shortage of fresh material rolling in hot off the presses, with stories of the baffling things our fellow human beings continue to do each and every day.
Originally I was going to take the stories and just post them as they were on the news sites. Then I started thinking that so many other news sites had already done that and the only way I was going to really entertain anyone was to wait long enough so that the story was forgotten, then rehash it again. Copying and pasting really isn’t my thing and it didn’t seem to have too much redeeming entertainment value. Then I had an idea. What if I took every strange story out there and wrote them in a way no one had ever done before? With the passage of time and a different spin on the material there would be a whole new level of appreciation for it. Don’t get me wrong, when I say appreciation I mean that strictly in the form of entertainment. Some of these stories are funny, but others are downright hideous. But each and every one is strange in its own way. Some sort of strange and others just about completely unbelievable.
So here I sit with tons material for this site that has to get rewritten. It will take time. I have a running start with a dozen or so and plan to post 2-3 a day. Please be patient with me getting it rolling in the onset. I do have a family to attend to and unfortunately, a day job too. If you come across any stories you would like to see posted please email them to me at Ryan@StrangeRush.com. (Odds are I have the story somewhere, but it could take me time to get to it. But I don’t really have anything older than April/May of 2008 ) If you email it to me I will know there is interest in seeing it written. I also welcome your comments below the posts. I will try to be PC most of the time, but in some cases, I’ll have to let it all out and tell you how I really feel.
I am really looking forward to getting this rolling. I have an odd fascination and obsession with all things strange and weird plus I love to write. So what better place for me to spend some quality time?
© 2009 StrangeRush.com
In fact, I have over a thousand (and growing) very strange stories from around the world to share with you. You see, for the last couple of years I have been collecting every strange, odd, weird, and bizarre story I can get my hands on. I have amassed quite the collection, if I do say so myself. Some of these stories will amuse you and make you chuckle, while others will absolutely BLOW your mind.
Some you have undoubtedly already heard about through standard media, but most will be entirely new to you. The good news is even if you have heard a certain story before, odds are you will have forgotten about it, but if not, I will add a new dimension to the way the story is told to give it renewed entertainment.
Here’s the twist: I am not going to merely copy, paste, and rehash what other media outlets have written. I am going to write each and every story in my own way, in a way that you have never seen before, in a way that traditional media cannot do, in a way that will amuse you, entertain you, and astonish you. You may find some stories hard to believe, but rest assured, they are all true.
I want to ensure you have many hours of exciting reading ahead of you that will leave you scratching your head, laughing, and in some cases shedding a tear. I believe you will find this one of the most entertaining websites on the entire internet and I welcome you.
Please, grab a cup of coffee, sit back, relax, and even kick up your feet. Have a good time.
© 2009 StrangeRush.com
