WORLD OF THE WEIRD: Bad Santa, Tranny Santa & Pipe Bombs

Well it’s that time of year again, so this week’s weird news starts on a slightly festive note…

Children in Ottawa got a rude surprise when opening letters from Father Christmas as part of the Write To Santa programme. Rather than praising them for being good children all year round distraught children instead found Santa screaming abuse at them. The hand-written messages are supposedly from a rogue elf, and the organisers can only hope there aren’t too many, as last year over one million children got these letters…

And there's plenty more when that came from.

On an even more downbeat note, a Melbourne man who was a little too full of the Christmas spirit, and only wearing a Santa hat and women's underwear, was sprayed by police with Capsicum Spray. Unfortunately rather than being subdued, the man killed himself by jumping off his block of flats…

Remember all those old jokes about Royal Mail? Well just be thankful you don’t live in Kansas. Ethel Martin received a Christmas card from her cousin, and incredibly it had been sent on December 23rd 1914. Better late than never we guess… 

Now we all know what a nightmare it is trying to get the right presents for the special someone, so pity poor old Eunice Lopez. She’s just been arrested in Miami after police discovered she had ten husbands! OK, it might cost her a bit but just think of how many presents will be under her tree… 

Over in South Korea, the must have Christmas present this year has got to be a glowing cat. Yes, scientists have cloned cats that now glow read when exposed to ultra-violet rays. Well it’s a seasonal colour we suppose…

So enough of all that festive cheer. Now hecklerpray doesn’t want to advertise people making pipe-bombs but this is a special case. In Indianapolis, Russell Cox was trying to figure out why his homemade explosives weren’t working when it blew up in his hands. There’s a lesson there for everyone… 

To end on a lighter note we head over to Penobscot County, where a fire-chief has been arrested for drink-driving. Now drink-driving is obviously not a laughing matter, but Russell Banks was so drunk he decided to race a fire-engine around his neighbourhood with sirens and lights blaring! Unfortunately enough for him, people soon realised there was no fire in the area, and when Police found him he was twice over the legal limit. So there you go boys and girls, don’t drink and drive. Or steal a fire-engine. 

[story by Dave Mercer]