Peruvian Man Gives the Term ‘Iron Stomach’ New Meaning
July 11, 2008 by Liberty Kontranowski
Filed under Extreme, Oddities, Weird News
Ever eat a huge lunch and feel like your gut was full of lead? Well, if you’re 38-year-old Luis Zarate of Peru, your guts really is full of lead. And other things.
Doctors took X-rays of Mr. Zarate after he complained of sharp stomach pains. What they found was 17 different strange objects littering his stomach and colon. Among them: screws, bolts, barbed-wire, nails, pens, a knife and a watch clasp. Wow.
Not surprisingly, these unusual delicacies had caused Zarate’s stomach to expand, and surgery was performed to remove the unwelcome objects.
Doctors have said that Zarate is mentally ill, but the reasons …read more
Notice: Life for Sale.
June 20, 2008 by Liz Lewis
Filed under Adventure, Announcements, Extreme, How To, Misc., Morning News, Oddities, Psychology, Weird News
What would you do if you felt your life was falling apart? Most people would somehow pick up the pieces and carry on. But there’s this guy in Australia who has decided he doesn’t want to pick up the pieces. Instead, he wants to ’sell the pieces of his life’ and start a whole new life.
Sounds extreme. But is it really ? People have been starting over forever. Think Pilgrims. Think immigrants.
But Ian Usher’s way of starting over involves selling his life on e-bay…
From Sunday, June 22 for one week, Usher’s life is up for sale on eBay with the …read more
You Know the Saying ‘Everyone Has a Twin’?…
May 16, 2008 by Liberty Kontranowski
Filed under Across the Pond, Boys & Girls, Children, Extreme, Oddities, Weird News
You’ve heard it time and again. Somebody tells you that you look just like so and so, and you eek out the standard reply: “Well, they say everyone has a twin.”
Well, if you’re a seemingly normal 9-year-old girl in central Greece, you not only have a twin, but you carry her (or him) around in your stomach.
Yes, this is true. The girl, who was suffering from stomach pains and a swollen belly, went to the hospital where doctors surgically removed a growth that was found to be the girl’s embryonic twin. A formed fetus, it was two inches long and …read more
Excuse Me, Sir. Does This Toilet Seat Make My Butt Look Big?
March 13, 2008 by Liberty Kontranowski
Filed under Extreme, Media, Oddities, Weird News
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Wowza. Now here’s a story that’ll make you think twice about the phrase “Shit or get off the pot”.
Seems a 35-year-old Kansas woman by the name of Pam Babcock has been spending so much time on the pot that her skin actually started growing around the seat. No, I swear I’m not kidding.
What’s more? This didn’t happen overnight. Nah, this poor woman has been living in her boyfriend’s bathroom for two years. Two years!
Says boyfriend Kory McFarren:
“She is an adult; she made her own decision. I should have gotten …read more
