Category Archives: Offbeat News

A Manchester nightclub will allow customers to bring their own alcohol starting September 19th. XLR owner Chris Hindle said the move addresses the current "hospitality crisis" and helps "get people ba...

A former NHS surgeon received a two-year, eight-month prison sentence for insurance fraud and possessing extreme pornography. Neil Hopper, 49, from Truro, Cornwall, deliberately froze his legs with ic...

A New Zealand woman set a Guinness World Record by running barefoot across Lego bricks in 24.75 seconds. Gabrielle Wall completed the 100-meter sprint over loose Lego pieces in Christchurch. The 328-f...

A 1-year-old boy in Sydney went missing for two hours after being mistakenly handed to the wrong grandparent at his daycare center. The incident occurred at Bangor's First Steps Learning Academy on Se...

At the Burning Man festival in Nevada, a woman unexpectedly gave birth to a 3-pound, 9-ounce baby girl in the bathroom of her RV camper. Kayla Thompson told The New York Times she didn't know she was ...

A 46-year-old employee at a Florida puppy store allegedly strangled a juvenile he had an ongoing dispute with, while wearing an inflatable puppy costume. Rodney Platthy, a registered sex offender, was...

Fifty-one years after a student lost his wallet at an Ontario high school, construction workers found it hidden behind a bathroom wall. Tom Schopf, who was 17 years old in 1974, had the wallet contain...

A woman from Ireland secretly traveled to Switzerland to undergo assisted suicide, despite telling her family she was on vacation in Lithuania. Maureen Slough, 58, informed a friend she "was not herse...

An elderly Japanese woman in her 80s was scammed out of $6,700 after a fraudster claimed to be a stranded astronaut in need of money. The "romance scam" began in July when the two connected on social ...

A Florida man is facing federal charges for using drones to smuggle fentanyl and contraband cellphones into prisons across multiple states. Prosecutors allege 45-year-old James Key III conspired to di...