Jet Pack weddings! Courtroom Muppets! Elementary school kids running gambling schemes!? Well, 2012 might not have been the year of the Mayan apocalypse, but was a plenty weird and wild 12 months nonetheless. Here is a compilation of the funniest, wackiest and most amazing stories of the past year from The Post’s Weird but True column.
If you ever want to get a Jesus tramp stamp, a church in Flint, Mich., is the place to go.
In January, the Bridge Church opened up a licensed tattoo parlor in its building as part of an effort to attract new members.
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They brokeaworld record in Panama City, Fla., in March by more than the bare minimum—thanks to 450 bikiniwearing beauties. The townsmashed the Guinness record for the longest bikini beach parade ever, which had been held by Surfers Paradise Beach in Australia, where357 women marched in 2011. “It wasexhausting, but it wasexciting,” said one of the new champs.
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Forget courtroom sketches — a TV station in Cleveland created a courtroom puppet show. WOIO used Muppetlike puppets to reenact a local official’s corruption trial because the federal court did not allow cameras inside. The performances included colorful puppet versions of the judge, the suspect, jurors and witnesses reciting lines directly from the court transcripts.
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Fans ofWeirdbut True will recall an item aboutagorgeous 20yearold Brazilian woman named Catarina Migliorini (left) who planned to auction off her virginity to raise money for charity. The auction took place in October—and the high bid wasawhopping $780,000, placed by a Japanese man known only as Natsu.
Whether God approves is another story.
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You can call this new drink a Barkweiser.
A pet-friendly pub in Britain brewed up a new beer especially for dogs. The nonalcoholic beverage — simply called Dog Beer — is flavored to taste like beef.
To go along with the beer, The Branding Villa in Newcastle serves canine guests a roast with what they say is a “cat-flavored” gravy.
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In February, a Fort Lauderdale, Fla., judge sentenced a man who’d had an altercation with his wife to take her out on a “date’’ that included elegant dining at the local Red Lobster followed by a night of bowling.
Judge John Hurley also ordered defendant Joseph Bray “to stop somewhere and get some flowers’’ for his wife.
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Talk about getting stuck in traffic!
A man trying to get around a bottleneck in San Francisco in February drove his Porsche sports car into an empty lane — without trying to figure out why it was empty.
It turns out the lane had just been repaved — and the cement hadn’t dried.
A team of workers had to quickly dig him out — before the concrete set, trapping the $120,000 vehicle.
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A California man built a museum-worthy doghouse.
Jim Berger, 68, was a precocious 12-year-old when he wrote to architect Frank Lloyd Wright, asking him to design a home for the family dog.
Wright kindly drew up a pooch palace, but Berger didn’t get around to building it until last year. The doghouse is now featured in a documentary on Wright, “Romanza.”
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March Madness got 11-year-old Max Kohl in hot water when he started an NCAA basketball gambling pool — in elementary school.
Max was caught selling $5 brackets to fellow students, and the principal ratted him out to his mother.
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Most guys would be phoning their friends, not 911, about this.
A man in Berlin, Germany, called cops to whine that the woman he took home for a one-night stand was demanding too much sex!
He said he had to lock himself on an apartment balcony to avoid her amorous advances — until amused officers showed up to save him from his predicament.
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