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Weird World: 12 Strange, Strange Events We Didn’t Hear About

By:: Andrea Meno

October 13, 2021

Weird World: 12 Strange, Strange Events We Didn’t Hear About

In an Ontario high school, the parents want to get their Iron Maiden-loving principal out … but the students don’t. Here’s the full story, plus 11 others:

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WEIRD WORLD A guy in Ontario called 911 because he was stuck in traffic and had to pee. I have to pee and these guys are not moving, he said. The operator replied, How are the police going to help you urinate? CRACKED.COM — Source: Daily Hive

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WEIRD WORLD A Scottish town's power line was knocked down by a Viking longboat, of all things. illustration The boat was a replica, brought into town for a celebration, but its mast got tangled in a power line. Apparently, just one house lost power. CRACKED.COM — Source: BBC

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WEIRD WORLD A guy in Queens climbed into a treetop and just kind of stayed there. He got on a roof on a Wednesday afternoon, then moved to a nearby tree and spent the night. Despite police presence, he didn't want to get down. CRACKED.COM — Source: ABC7NY

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WEIRD WORLD A woman got a restraining order for using an Alexa for verbal threats. She'd set up the Alexa in her ex-partner's home to shout get the whore out (plus, she posted a naked pic of him on his social media). CRACKED.COM — Source: Insider

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WEIRD WORLD A Liverpool man found a strange rag doll buried in a wall in his new house. illustration The doll had a note saying her name is Emily, and that she didn't like her original owners (who lived there in 1961) and stabbed them to death. CRACKED.COM — Source: The AV Club

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WEIRD WORLD In British Columbia, Canada, a meteorite landed on a woman's pillow. illustration She was in bed at the time, and got woken up after hearing a crash there was a hole in her ceiling, debris on her face, and a rock on her pillow. CRACKED.COM — Source: Castlegar News

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WEIRD WORLD In Montreal, the mafia are worrying that young mafiosos are phone-addicted. Older bosses complain that the young generation does everything through text messaging, including threats and intimidation. CRACKED.COM — Source: Montreal Gazette

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WEIRD WORLD In California, a guy is suing a psychic for falsely promising to lift a curse. PSYCHO TMAGTN She told him that, for $5,100, she could remove the curse on his marriage that was put there by a witch hired by his ex-girlfriend. She couldn't. CRACKED.COM — Source: BBC

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WEIRD WORLD Andrew Lloyd- -Webber got a dog to heal the wounds left by the Cats movie. Cats was off-the-scale all wrong, he said, so he went out and bought his first ever dog. That's the one good thing to come out of it, he says. CRACKED.COM — Source: The AV Club

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WEIRD WORLD A defendant in Wales got up and tried to arrest the judge in his case. He told the judge that he didn't recognize his authority, crossed the courtroom, and tired to climb onto the judge's desk. It didn't work. CRACKED.COM — Source: Wales Online

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WEIRD WORLD Two guests asked for a refund from a UK hotel because it housed refugees. They were by no means racist, they insisted, adding that it's not the refugees' fault - It is just the predicament that they are in. CRACKED.COM — Source: Insider

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WEIRD WORLD There's a controversy around a high school principal who's an Iron Maiden fan. Some parents at Ontario's Eden High School started a petition to remove her, but the students then started a counter-petition to keep her. CRACKED.COM — Source: Loaded Radio

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