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It’s always nice to bring home souvenirs as mementos of your travels to distant lands. That said, you should not try to take just any kind of foreign crap with you when you leave. Especially if that’s crap in the literal sense. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CPB) agents at the Minneapolis–Saint Paul International …
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Somerset is a pretty region in southwestern England, known for its green farmland and beautiful coastline. But for the past few years, the area has been terrorized by a strange fiend. He is known as the Somerset Gimp. The mysterious man has caused fear, distress, and general mischief in villages around the Somerset area since …
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Here at Oddee, we’ve covered a lot of absolutely bizarre stories over the years. Even then, we still sometimes run into cases so strange that we don’t quite know where to begin. There’s really no way to build into this story, so let’s just get right to it. The British police were recently forced to …
There are so many valuable things you could steal in this world. There’s money, gold, jewelry, high-tech gadgets… Even mere information can fetch ridiculous prices when sold to the right person. But none of those things were good enough for the Irish thieves from our story. No, they wanted something completely different. They stole bull …
Continue reading “Burglars Steal Two Valuable Tanks from Irish Farm — Containing Bull Semen”
Picture yourself as an archeologist digging through the ruins of an ancient Neolithic city. Then, you find something. Slowly, from beneath sand and soil, you discover a statue. It’s a huge slab of stone carved into the shape of a giant man, more finely detailed than what you would’ve expected from the period. And the …
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Quick, think about Vatican City — what comes to your mind? Perhaps the Pope, the Sistine Chapel, or any of the thousands of priceless works of art from the masters of old? Well, whatever you thought of, it probably wasn’t wall calendars featuring hot babes or hunks with rippling muscles. But what if we told …
Continue reading “Holy Hunks: Rome’s ‘Handsome Priests’ Calendar Celebrates 20th Anniversary”
You can find a lot of things living in New York City’s sewers. There are cockroaches, rats, and probably some kind of a race of underground morlocks. What you won’t find is the sewers’ most famous resident. Although rumors of its existence have circulated for a century, NYC’s legendary sewer alligator is nothing but a …
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Eating at fine restaurants is great — until you have to pay the bill. Still, it’s what you have to do to enjoy an excellent meal. El Gastrojeta doesn’t think so. This notorious dine-and-dasher has inconvenienced and infuriated Spanish restaurateurs throughout the year. Identified as a 50-year-old Lithuanian Aidas J., El Gastrojeta devised a rather …
Peter Piper may have picked a peck of pickled peppers, but he didn’t create them. Ed Currie, however, does. And what peppers they are. The South Carolina pepper wizard is the man responsible for crossbreeding the Carolina Reaper, officially the world’s hottest chili pepper. Well, at least it used to be that. The Reaper has …
You have to get to your job interview, but you don’t have access to an automobile. How would you solve this dilemma? Most people would probably call an Uber or perhaps ask a friend or family member for a ride. But not this Indiana woman. Kasia Shelton from Muncie has been arrested for stealing a …