Historical Fun

Stranger News: Chicken becomes Chief of Police As strange as it sounds, a Rooster in Japan became the chief of police in September due to his popularity and death-defying skills.   The chicken, who now has a name, Masahiro, defied death three times and, as such, shot into the Osaka residents' hearts, becoming a local celebrity. No stranger than those who go on reality shows and become famous. At the least the chicken actually has personality and skill.   Masahiro was down to be fed to raccoons at Tennoji Zoo in Osaka, Japan. It seems, those racoons can't get enough of deep-fried chicken. The local KFC is often frequented by them at the end of a night partying.   However, Masahiro was spared the trauma of being rolled in the special flour and fried to a nice crispy shine. A duckling who had no parents required a foster father. If only the badgers didn't like crispy duck so much, the duckling could have been raised by its real parents.   Nope, the ...

Stranger News: Lord Heseltine brutally murdered his dog and over 350 squirrels. Well, maybe not the dog, but the squirrels, yep, he massacred those little, grey feckers.   For some reason, unknown to virtually everyone, Lord Heseltine, the former Conservative Deputy Prime Minister of Britain, has been in the news today for strangling his pet dog.   Heseltine told Tatler magazine, and god only knows why, that his mother's pet dog, an Alsatian called Kim, had a mental breakdown, so he grabbed its choker chain and pulled it tight until he went limp. We assume he means the dog went limp, not him.   Various news broadcasts and social media immediately jumped on the non-existent bandwagon, with headlines purporting that Heseltine killed his mother's dog.   Lord Heseltine came back and explained they were a bunch of morons and it was a terrible misrepresentation of what actually happened.   This story gets a little stranger, as this incident didn'...

ALSO IN THE NEWS: CHURCH ANGRY AT GERMAN MEN TAKING THE PISS Ulm Minster, in Germany, which has the world's largest church tower, is having a problem with men spending a penny on the church.   The urine is destroying the stone base and the fear is that the church may collapse in the future if men continue to syphon the python on the structure.   As a punishment for blokes taking a leak the Pee-Police have doubled the fine for those caught to 100 euros.   However it seems to have made little difference.   Michael Hilbert, head of the department that maintains the building, and a semi-professional peepeeping Tom, said, "I've been keeping an eye on it for half a year now and, once again, it's coated with urine and vomit."   In Other News War between Lindsay Lohan and Kettering Borough Council escalates Gorilla Escapes London Zoo and Downs Five Litres of Undiluted Blackcurrant Squash Chinese city inundated with clean butts Kellog...

Stranger News: Gorilla Escapes London Zoo   Kambuka, a 29 stone sliverback gorilla, escaped from his enclouse at London Zoo on October 13th, 2016, in a daring prison break.   The gorilla didn't need to break any doors, or bend prison bars, or smash through hardened glass. Nope. The doors to his enclosure were left unlocked.   Kambuka took a chance and opened the doors, making a bolt for it. He made it all the way to a secure keepers' area, where he encountered a rather surprised keeper who, after a brief discussion, left to get the gun.   Kambuka took the opportunity to down five litres of undiluted blackcurrant juice.   Shortly afterwards, the gorilla was tranquilised and then returned to his enclosure.   Now that's a lot of undiluted blackcurrant squash.   I can only ever manage about one litre. On one occasion, I managed two litres of undiluted blackcurrant juice.   And, yes, after that, they had to tranqui...