August Edition of Unusual Bizarre & Weird News

Get this chess set now before they're all gone! Photo Courtesy: Dan Iggers
Get this chess set now before they’re all gone! Photo Courtesy: Dan Iggers

By Andrew J. Hewett

A DUMB-BUTT BRAIN DISEASE?
On June 9, 2014, Darren Shelley, 22, appeared in Stamford (Conn.) Superior Court, facing a charge of possession with intent to sell drugs, smelling strongly of marijuana. Though he swore he wasn’t stupid enough to bring pot into court, a body search found 19 bags of marijuana inside his left sock.

MAY NEED COAT, BLANKET AND TV?
Though renowned Hindu guru Shri Ashutosh Maharaj passed away in January, police in Jalandhar, India, say his disciples refused to accept that fact, and stored his body inside a commercial freezer. Last heard, they were still waiting for him to awaken from his “deeper” form of meditation.

HUMAN SOULS’ ANCHOR: RELIGION
Khartoum, Sudan – A 27-year-old woman, Meriam Ibrahim, was sentenced to death for falling in love and getting married. That’s because her father is Muslim …and Meriam’s new husband is Christian. Fortunately, since her father had gotten her Christian mother pregnant outside of wedlock, the Court of Cassation canceled her death sentence.