Jezebel: strange but true

Maybe He's...A Jellicle Cat?

Sadie — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 19:40:00 EDT

''As a vet I can tell you that it is genetically impossible" for a male cat to be tortoiseshell, says the anomaly's owner. She's named him after Eddie Izzard, "as he is essentially a boy dressed in girls' clothing." [Telegraph]

Medical Marvel

Intern Katy — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 18:10:00 EDT

An infant in China was born with a rare medical condition: he has two penises. And one of them is located in the middle of his back. Let the dick-punning begin. [WorldofWonder]

1921 Woman Divorces Husband On Grounds Of Hypnosis

Sadie — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:45:00 EST

As the Star-Tribune, who re-ran the bizarre story, sagely notes: who needs Rohypnol?!

The story concerns a 19-year-old clerk who sought annulment of her marriage to a 30-year-old driver for the same company. "The girl bride charged that she had been forced by hypnotic influence of her mother-in-law into the marriage against her will."

Mrs. Glaser told her, she testified, that Linnehan would join the navy if she did not marry him. Pitying the mother, she finally consented to the marriage, she said. No date was fixed. She said Mrs. Glaser controlled her actions by hypnotic influence...One day, she said, Linnehan telephoned her to come over to the home of his mother. When she arrived there, she testified, Linnehan and his mother took her by the arm and escorted her to the courthouse, where a license was obtained and the ceremony performed.

The weirdest part? The judge granted her the annulment.
Thursday, Jan. 13, 1921: Married By Hypnosis [Minneapolis Star Tribune]

Special Delivery

Dodai — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:45:00 EDT

Postal worker Lisa Harrell was delivering mail to a home in Albany, NY when she noticed a baby in the window above the door. Harrell says the next thing she knew, the baby had fallen ...Into her arms. The 1-year-old girl's mother rushed outside to find that Harrell had saved her daughter's life (the mother had placed the child on a bed that was up against the window and turned her back for a second). Hooray for deliveries that aren't bills. [MSNBC]

Painted Ladies

Dodai — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:45:00 EDT

In a story that seems like it's straight out of a Tarantino flick, police in Boynton Beach, Florida say three men dressed in black walked into a strip club and shot several dancers with pink paintball pellets. Apparently the men committed the crime on behalf of an afternoon shift dancer who was upset when the manager refused to pay her. Three dancers from the Platinum Gold club were shot multiple times and had pink paint and several circular bruises on their bodies. (They were treated by medical staff on the scene.) The club itself now has shattered mirrors and pink paint splashed along the bar. Ever been shot by a paintball pellet? That shit hurts, through clothes. Imagine if all you're wearing is a thong. [UPI, WPBF]

My Bloody Valentine: A Love Story

Dodai — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 14:30:00 EDT

So let's just say there's this guy. And he has a serious crush on this girl in his class. She's not interested, but he just can't stop thinking about her. 3 years pass and he decides he has the perfect plan: As she's walking home from school, he'll jab her with a syringe and inject his blood into her body! That way, they're together forever. Sort of. 'Til the cops come. Anyway, that's what happened in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, yesterday. The 22-year-old man (who is not Pete Doherty, by the way) is being held by police and the 21-year-old woman is in the hospital for tests.

But this made us think back to our 90s witchy The Craft-inspired moment in which we read a book of love spells and discovered a man could be yours if you snuck some menstrual blood into his food. We were tempted, since it supposedly makes the guy "faithful for all time." But figuring out how to get the blood into his pizza in the cafeteria was an obstacle we weren't prepared for. (The voodoo doll is another story.)
Man Injects Love Interest With Blood [CBS News]