Category Archive for 'True Stories Jokes'

Hotel’s loud snorers

Sunday, July 3rd, 2005

The following is supposedly a true story. To be included, besides being true, the story is most likely strange, weird, surprising, or funny. Sunday, December 13, 1992 In October, the Swallows Hotel in Gateshead, England, offered 11 chronic snorers a free night’s stay so they it could test how well soundproofed the rooms are. The [...]

Normal traffic stop

Sunday, July 3rd, 2005

The following is supposedly a true story. To be included, besides being true, the story is most likely strange, weird, surprising, or funny. Sunday, December 13, 1992 After police pulled over Kevin Temple, 35, in a routine traffic stop in Bronson, Fla., in October, a police dog sniffing the trunk became agitated. In the trunk [...]

Reduce national debt

Sunday, July 3rd, 2005

The following is supposedly a true story. To be included, besides being true, the story is most likely strange, weird, surprising, or funny. Monday, December 7, 1992 In October, an envelope containing $15,000 in cash was left, anonymously, on a chair at the Detroit IRS office with the instruction to apply it “to reduce the [...]

Locked in the trunk

Sunday, July 3rd, 2005

The following is supposedly a true story. To be included, besides being true, the story is most likely strange, weird, surprising, or funny. Monday, December 7, 1992 Joe Albert Ruiz, 19, was arrested in Santa Maria in September. Police said he had broken into a car in the middle of the night and was in [...]

Scent makes you gamble

Sunday, July 3rd, 2005

The following is supposedly a true story. To be included, besides being true, the story is most likely strange, weird, surprising, or funny. Monday, December 7, 1992 In September, the Smell & Taste Treatment and Research Foundation reported the development of an odor that makes gamblers bet more. In a study in Las Vegas, slot [...]

Threaten with a knife

Sunday, July 3rd, 2005

The following is supposedly a true story. To be included, besides being true, the story is most likely strange, weird, surprising, or funny. Sunday, November 29, 1992 Robert A. Chase, 45, was charged with threatening an 11-year-old boy with a knife in Madison, Wis. The boy was watching Chase play basketball with another adult when [...]

Ordered to pay fines

Sunday, July 3rd, 2005

The following is supposedly a true story. To be included, besides being true, the story is most likely strange, weird, surprising, or funny. Sunday, November 29, 1992 The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (DWP) was ordered to pay $333,000 in penalties to Inyo County because DWP’s property tax payment arrived late — after [...]

Choking a girlfriend

Sunday, July 3rd, 2005

The following is supposedly a true story. To be included, besides being true, the story is most likely strange, weird, surprising, or funny. Sunday, November 29, 1992 The Ontario Press Council dismissed a complaint filed by Allan Sorensen against the Toronto Sun, which had reported that Sorenson had choked his ex-girlfriend. Sorensen’s complaint was that [...]

Public school dangers

Sunday, July 3rd, 2005

The following is supposedly a true story. To be included, besides being true, the story is most likely strange, weird, surprising, or funny. Sunday, November 29, 1992 An investigation by the Dallas Morning News revealed the city’s public schools employ at least 185 people who have been convicted of felonies, including two convicted murderers. In [...]

Invent artificial dogs

Sunday, July 3rd, 2005

The following is supposedly a true story. To be included, besides being true, the story is most likely strange, weird, surprising, or funny. Sunday, November 22, 1992 Researchers at Cornell University recently patented an artificial dog that would speed up the breeding of fleas for lab use. Previously, the lab required 25 live, severely infected [...]