Tag: STRANGEBUTTRUE

Hell hath no fury like a resentful child scorned. Forty-five years ago, Brit-based Kenneth Ireland left his two children and his wife for another woman, leaving the family with nothing but $28 dollars. Son William Ireland, who was six when Dad departed, spent his childhood longing for a father, and in 2006, William tracked his old pops down and tried to reconnect. Not long after, his estranged ...

The one with the $22,000 downloads of 'Friends' episodes.... Whoever said Friends don't cost a thing? A man from the United Kingdom received a bill for £11,000 (about $22,000) after his wife downloaded four episodes of the popular TV show from his cell phone. Apparently, she began downloading shortly before the man left for business in Germany, where roaming charges made the bill ...

Pakistan is recovering from an episode of widespread panic that gripped the nation late last week thanks to a vicious prank. Cell phone providers reported a high volume of customer-service calls inquiring about a deadly virus transmitted by cell phones. This illness was not some kind of bacteria you pick up from talking on a dirty phone, but a curse said to be responsible for 20 deaths. ...