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Someone could argue that we at Oddee are suffering from ophidiophobia of late. There’s the story about 100-pound snakes living in a man’s ceiling, and the pure horror of a four-foot snake pulled from a Russian woman’s throat. Now, rounding out a trifecta-of-awful, a snake in a toilet biting a man’s penis and sending him …
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If you want to fly for free, have worked in the industry, and know how to “get in,” then you can chance a bunch of free flights, too, just like this guy did. But keep in mind, you too, will be committing fraud, among other things. Hubbard Bell formerly worked for Mesa Airlines out of …
Continue reading “34 Free Spirit Airlines Flights Later Could Lead to 20 Years in Prison”
Have you ever liked something a lot? Like a really absurdly much? Maybe even so much that you’d want to take the thing to your grave? Well, this WW2 veteran who recently was given the right to be buried in a chewing gum package certainly has. Alright, that’s a bit of an exaggeration, but it’s …
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Unless you’ve been living under a hefty rock in a sound-proof chamber seven miles underground, you know that there’s currently… Let’s say, friction in the US about law enforcement practices, as is evident in the soaring number of victims of the country’s criminal justice system. Look, you know what we’re talking about. But that’s a …
Continue reading “Black Man in Florida Offered Job by Same Cops That Detained Him”
There are some who won’t be held back by authority. Whether they use a silver tongue, crafty tricks, or just plain determination and brute force, these people will escape captivity time and time again. For an example, you could read our recent story about two flat-earthers in Italy who escaped the police on a boat …
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California is so hot right now, and not in any good way. In case you haven’t been reading the news (apart from our odd news) lately, let us summarize – the state is literally on fire. The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE) currently lists more than a dozen wildfires active in …
Continue reading “Raging California Wildfire Sparked by Gender Reveal Party”
It’s common knowledge that words and symbols can have double meanings. It’s the basis of a massive number of jokes and puns, for example. Who doesn’t love a good double entendre? But sometimes double meanings can take on a much more sinister nature. An online activist says that this is the case with the cheese …
Continue reading “Activist Links Cheese Pizza Emojis to Online Child Abuse Rings”
We’ve posted a lot of animal stories lately. Everybody likes animals, but at least this author feels like a change of pace is needed. So, let’s do something different today. How about the story of Italian flat-earthers whose journey to the edge of the world didn’t exactly go according to plan? The debacle happened back …
Yesterday we covered a story about two huge pythons crashing in through an Australian man’s ceiling. But what’s that you’re saying? That doesn’t scare you, it’s just two snakes? Oh, we got ourselves a tough guy, huh? Well, this next one should leave even the staunchest snake-lover squeamish. For this story, we’re going over to …
Continue reading “Doctors Pull 4-Foot Snake Out of Russian Woman’s Throat”
Remember that movie The Rocketeer? Get in the way-back machine–it came out in 1991 starring a young Billy Campbell who fought Nazis just by putting on a jetpack. The movie’s premise is that an army equipped with jetpacks would rule the world. That must have seemed plausible in the 90s. Anyway, now, the dreams of …