News of the Bizarre

Not only has Santa Clause been enjoying his tobacco pipe for centuries, he’s also enjoyed some time helping out advertising execs by selling cigarettes in the mid-20th century. But now Santa’s tobacco days are over!

60-year-old Valerie, of Doylestown, OH, is sharing her heartbreaking and shocking story with the world in hopes of helping others. Eight years ago Valerie found out that her late husband Percy Spruill, was actually her father (he died in 1989 a the age of 60.) But, his wasn’t the first “family secret” Valerie had had to deal with, her family life had been rife with hidden truths.

I’ve never personally had many problems with ordering items from Amazon, and I do it ALL the time, but I’ve never tried to order a TV from them like Seth Horvitz did. The thing is that Amazon doesn’t ship a lot of their items out, and a lot of the time acts as a online retailing service for other merchants. This is how Seth got into the weird spot he got into, one of those merchants really messed up.

Singapore newspaper The Straits Times reports that a disgruntled maid named Jumiah has been charged with allegedly putting her period blood in her boss’s coffee last August. The worst part of waking up . . .

Gas prices are continuing to soar, but in a strange turn of events, it’s Tide laundry detergent that’s considered to be “liquid gold.”

There’s recently been a strange epidemic in the U.S. known as “Grime Sprees.” People are stealing large amounts of Tide from Big Box stores (loading up carts to the brim, and simply running out of the store with their loot.) Why detergent? Why Tide in particular? What are they doing with all that soap?

Are you the sibling who tirelessly sacrifices your life to care for your 90-something-year-old mother while you carefree siblings run around betraying her trust and breaking her heart? Are you ready for a little payback?

If so, you can take a cue from “A.J.” who obviously had a hand in publishing his mom’s obituary.

We all know that companies track out behavior to try to figure out what we want to buy, but wait ’til you learn a little bit about HOW they track you.

Joseph Pressil is suing his girlfriend Anetria Burnett because she allegedly took the sperm from their used condoms to a fertility clinic to get in-vitro fertilization. Pressil also alleges that she was trying to get pregnant so she could have possession of his Texas home (Pressil now lives in Long Island), and child support payments.

Mom Wendy Werkit of Nashville, TN is making headlines after getting caught selling chickenpox laced lollipops online, and advertising via Facebook. Lollipox anyone?

Perth Mint chief executive Ed Harbuz calls it “the pinnacle of ingenuity and innovation,” but this idea sounds crazy silly to me.

Australia’s Perth Mint had produced a $1 million (in Australian currency) coin made almost entirely of gold (99.99% to be exact.) The weight? A ton. This is a $1 million coin that’s made of a ton of gold. When you think for a minute how high gold is these days, logic starts to deconstruct.