Weird News

A sausage dog that got stuck in a railing outside its home for half an hour had to be saved by firefighters. Desperate dachshund Milo was running around in the garden while waiting for owner Sarah Jane Thompson when its long body got stuck in the garden gates. Sarah was putting her six-week-old daughter into her pram ahead of a walk in the sunshine on Monday when over-excited Milo lodged itself between the garden and the street. The panicked dog...

By Nigel Watson Twenty years ago the belief that a UFO would take them away to a better life led 39 members of the Heaven's Gate cult to commit mass suicide on Wednesday, 26 March 1997. The 18 women and 21 men, ranging in age from 26 to 72, killed themselves along with their charismatic leader Marshall Herff Applewhite. Calling themselves the 'Away Team', they believed that they would return to the Kingdom of Heaven, which they called the Next...

Dramatic dash-cam footage captured the terrifying accident which took place on the A17 in Newark, Notts., at 9am on Tuesday (28/3). It shows the HGV transporting hay bales coming around a corner before it starts to lean into the path of the oncoming Mid UK Recycling truck as it starts to overturn. Tonnes of bales of gate can then be seen spilling down in front of the camera as the offending lorry comes to precariously rest against the other vehicle...

Paul Brown, 48, spent nine hours crafting the T-Rex out of over 200 specialist balloons to take into his children's school as part of "Dinosaur Week". The inflatable structure is the biggest the dad-of-two has ever created in his 30 years of balloon modelling. He previously made a series of superhero costumes after his work went viral and received hundreds of thousands of likes on Facebook. Paul, who lives with his wife Kirsty, 38, son Sammy, nine, and daughter Molly,...

This phenomenal footage shows the moment that lightning struck the world’s tallest building – the 829 metre-tall Burj Khalifa in Dubai. A massive electrical storm hit the country on Sunday 26th March 2017, leaving residents amazed by the massive thunder strikes. This video was captured by 37-year-old Wisam Saker as he sat on his balcony with his wife Lovely Reyes, 30, to watch the shocking weather. He said: “My reaction is so wow in amazement. My wife couldn't open her...

Sticks are been sold for almost £20 in the trendy North London suburb of Stoke Newington. A florist situated next to a park has come under fire for selling sticks - for a massive £18. Botanique in the North Hackney hipster haunt of Stokie has around eight pieces of wood around a foot long for customers to hang on their walls. The wall hangings range from £12 to £18 with various shapes and sizes, with some including notches to hang clothes from. Most are...

This cat amazed its owner by using a human toilet, without any prompting or training. Lorna Forgione, 45, her water and assumed she had forgot to turn the tap off. However, when she walked into her bathroom she found her cat using her toilet. Support worker Lorna said: "Nobody taught him to go to the toilet he just seemed to learn how to use it all by himself. "He sat on the lid, did his business and then scratched the...

The yet-to-be-named baby was born with three legs attached to her groin area. Srilatha Kanchanapally (25) had delivered the baby on March 21st at government Jangaon district hospital, around 87km from Hyderabad. Two days later, the baby was shifted to Niloufer hospital for an operation to remove the extra limb. Dr K Srinivas, who helped with the complex delivery, said: “The extra limb was protruding from the child's pelvis area can be surgically removed. Other than the extra limb, the...

Nail-biting footage shows a daredevil reveller sliding down the slippery roof of a 70ft building - while his mates egg him on. The 'drunk' lad, thought to be in his twenties, is seen navigating the five-storey block of flats after apparently being 'dared' to touch a window. After scaling the roof terrace barrier, the youngster - who has nothing but a flimsy wire fence to steady himself - sits and slides to the bottom of the slope. The panic-inducing clip...