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Daily Star of Scotland
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Boo
in The Land of the Haggii...
Apr 14, 2005
 First of all, I want to clarify. The Daily Star is a crappy tabloid which I mostly buy because it's cheap and also funny.

Now, for a while I've noticed little articles that then turn up on the museum of hoaxes a few days or weeks later (the suicide dogs one springs to mind) or I notice things I've read on the Museum turning up in the paper a month or so later.
So I decided to note any strange or hoaxy type articles that I came across.

Phew.

Yesterday's articles.

Star Burst
Rich would-be Robinson Crusoes are lining up to splash £5 million for 45-acre Green Island in Dorset's Poole harbour.


Girls so Cocky
A gadget that measures the length and girth of a guy's manhood is being snapped up by women. Thousands have contacted makers Cockrule Ltd ( see here) after seeing it on TV show Friday Night with Jonathan Ross. A spokesman said: 'Women want to know the truth and find out how big their men are.'


Mum Killed By Own Car in Freak Crash
Fawlty antics turn tragic
A mum who launched a Basil Fawlty-style attack on her conked out car was run over and killed by it.
Alison Taylor was so angry when the rusting Peugeot 405 wouldn't start she got out, lifted the bonnet and laid into it with a hammer.
It mirrored a scene from the TV comedy Fawlty Towers when Basil - played by John Cleese - launched a frenzied assault on his stalled car with a broken branch.
But Alison's banging triggered the starter motor and sparked the ailing engine into life.
The car then lurched straight into her because the handbrake was broken.
Terrified Alison, 36, desperately reached out her hand to stop herself being dragged under - but accidentally grabbed the throttle cable.
That caused the car to accelerate and run her over, killing her in front of her mum. Alison had just dropped off her son Daryl, 12, at a school meeting and was trying to get the car to start at Seaton Burn Community College, North Tyneside.
Mum Marjorie said: "The car made a small jump forward followed by a much larger, more obvious one.
"There was smoke coming from the front and I saw Alison trapped underneath."
The family were planning to get rid of the car this week.
"It is one of the strangest cases I've come across." PC George Rutter told a North Tyneside inquest. The coroner gave a verdict of accidental death.


All articles copyrighted to the Daily Star of Scotland, of course.
Category: News-Story; Replies: 153

Comments
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Accipiter
Member
Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2005 | 04:18 PM
I wonder what that survey of British children considers to be the proper way to eat an orange?
Boo
in The Land of the Haggii...
 Member
Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2005 | 10:33 AM
Mum's Brat Run
A woman was charged with neglect after ordering her naughty son, aged 4, out of their car on a busy road in Washington DC.
Boo
in The Land of the Haggii...
 Member
Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2005 | 10:35 AM
Junk nut is Killed
Russian computer nerd, Vardan Kushnir, 35, who was notorious for sending millions of junk emails around the world every day, has been found battered to death in his Moscow home.
Boo
in The Land of the Haggii...
 Member
Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2005 | 10:37 AM
Patty the dog's talent for making the same sound as a fire engine siren saved his owner Michael Trembath's home in Brisbane from burning down after an arsonist set a banana tree alight.
Michael said: "He just howled until we came and put the blaze out."
Boo
in The Land of the Haggii...
 Member
Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2005 | 10:41 AM
Sleeping Partners
A man is suing an escort agency after being sent eight women in one night - and insisting he does not remember a thing.
Leonard Monfredo, 33, ordered a woman from Midnight Club Escorts in New York. He says he then had a 15-hour blackout that ended with a $40,000 (
Boo
in The Land of the Haggii...
 Member
Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2005 | 10:42 AM
Quick off Merc
A thief who stole a tin of salmon has had his Mercedes siezed by North Wales police as he had no visible means of support.
Boo
in The Land of the Haggii...
 Member
Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2005 | 10:43 AM
All copyright of the Daily Star of Scotland, as usual.
Winona
in USA
 Member
Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2005 | 04:58 PM
Test post, sorry! smile
Accipiter
Member
Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2005 | 02:14 PM
That one about the Mercedes is a bit confusing. Are they saying that the man stole the tin of fish, was caught, and then the police did some checking and discovered that he couldn't have afforded the car? It sounds almost like they're saying that the Mercedes was in the tin of salmon, which would imply either a very large tin, or else a considerable feat of engineering.
Maegan
in Tampa, FL - USA
 Member
Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2005 | 03:05 PM
Maybe they figured that since he can't afford a tin of salmon he can't afford the car either. (Sort of like a spite thing.)
Winona
in USA
 Member
Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2005 | 08:51 PM
I'm assuming they seized it because they may have suspected him of illegal activities such as drug dealing, since he had no means of support otherwise.
Boo
in The Land of the Haggii...
 Member
Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2005 | 06:30 AM
I think Noni's right. I have to admit that that one confused me too.
willim jon
in , Perth, Western, 6007, Austral74 WaltDriveiaers
Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2011 | 09:28 AM
Imagine this articles. I am very pleased for this post. Oh well. 2 shopping trips this year.Thanks;)
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