A massive ugly spider, who’s painful venomous bite causes four-hour-long erections, has been found in Coventry. The Brazilian wandering spider (Phoneutria spp.), sometime called the banana spider because it’s usually found in banana trees, is an aggressive and highly toxic arachnid. The nasty little bugger has a 15cm leg-span, and is quick to bite if [...]
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A 68-year-old grandmother from Birmingham was terrified when she was woken by a fox sitting on her chest, clawing her face. Mary Small from Bournville, Birmingham, was lying in bed on Sunday morning when she felt an animals claws scratching at her fizzog, believing it was a pesky moggy she slowly opened her eyes and [...]
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Louise Perry from Portsmouth was left quivering like jelly after finding a five-foot-long snake in her stairs cupboard. 49-year-old yummy mummy Louise was entertaining a TV repairman, who asked to plug in her socket. Louise opened the stairs cupboard so the Virgin TV technician could plug his tool in, and she spotted a big black [...]
Continue reading …Lynx, the people behind the male grooming products which promise to make you irresistible to beautiful women, have set a brand new world record for the most people showering together, and they did it with a load of fit birds. On Saturday 13th August a massive single shower head was installed on Bournemouth beach and [...]
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Workers at an engineering company in Lincolnshire may have had a narrow escape from death after black widow spiders crept out from the imported aircraft engines they were working on. Five engineers at TC Power, based in Barton-upon-Humber, were lying underneath two Boeing 747 engines when two black widows and a less dangerous brown widow [...]
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A mechanic at a garage in Oxford found more than an engine when he popped the bonnet of the Mini Cooper he was working on. Steve Spacksman who works at Carringtons of Oxford was carrying out the MOT on a customer’s Mini when he and colleague Wayne Hunt lifted the bonnet and discovered a seven-foot-long [...]
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A shop assistant from Aberdeen was stung by a poisonous scorpion this week whilst unpacking bananas. 48-year-old Bill Clark was fingering the bananas at Farmfoods in Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire, when he felt a painful sting. The supermarket shelf-stacker said he initially thought he’d pricked himself on a piece of glass, until he spied the pincer-clawed rotter [...]
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The Seriously Strong cheese people have put together a giant version of the classic pub grub dish. The massive ploughman’s lunch was unveiled in Battersea, London, on Friday and consisted of over a tonne of cheddar cheese, 60kg of tomatoes, 6,500 pickled onions, 1,500 spring onions, 21kg lettuce, 100 litres of pickle, and 175kg of [...]
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Yorkshire Cancer Research have managed to beat their own record for the most people bouncing on space hoppers simultaneously for one minute. Last year the organisation arranged the inaugural ‘Bounce for…’ event at the Don Valley Bowl in Sheffield and set the world record with 771 volunteers bouncing down a 100 metre racecourse. And that [...]
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Burnley will be the venue of Lancashire’s first ever Gay Pride festival. The two day extravaganza of moustachioed muscle men will centre around the Burnley Mechanics theatre on 9th and 10th September. The gay festival is a fund-raiser which will celebrate Burnley’s buzzing homosexual, lesbian, transsexual and transgender community. But you don’t have to be [...]
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