Offbeat News

Editor's Note: Patch has 31 sites in Virginia and D.C., and not a day goes by that something weird isn't happening in at least one of them.

My wife and I booked a two-bed cabin on the Gustav Af Klint, a beat-up, decommissioned steamship-turned-hostel, because it was a bargain at around $60 a night and in a great location, near Stockholm's Old Town and the metro.

It's a terrible moment when you're chowing down during a nice meal out, and all of a sudden you hear a crunch.

Deborah Ann Burns is accused of knifing her partner of six years, Willie Butler, with an eight-inch blade at their Florida apartment last week Deborah Ann Burns is accused of knifing her partner of six years, Willie Butler, with an eight-inch blade at their Florida apartment last week.

Since many students are getting ready for their summer break, we thought that it'd be fitting to round up some more funny and weird yearbook quotes, starting with the gem above that tells how to never be asked to do anything again.

A kangaroo digs its claws into an MP's leg and knocks him to the ground when the pair come face-to-face in a suburb of Canberra.

A central Florida man is in jail after deputies say he wore a disguise while slashing his wife's face, then made up a story about a home invasion to cover up his actions.

According to Statter911 , the PGFD Truck 831 crew stopped at a store to grab some food on Wednesday and when they returned to their truck a naked man was on the top of their aerial ladder.

WHITESBURG, Georgia -- The video popped up on YouTube over the weekend showing a remarkable stunt : A young man attached to a bungee cord leaps from a 100 foot tower.

A Sacramento surgeon has been reprimanded by the state medical board for suggesting a patient try oral sex to improve her gag reflex.

Police have arrested a 14-year-old boy after a pellet gun was shot at a vehicle and people in Fergus Falls.

They say everybody needs a little KFC, and it seems they're right. Gaza residents don't have access to a local branch - so they're willing to pay more than twice the going price to get it delivered from Egypt in a highly complex process that takes some four hours.

The U.S. Postal Service says Los Angeles was the worst American city for dog attacks on letter carriers last year.

Fire rescue crews were called to Bay Harbor Islands early Saturday morning after reports of a 30-foot boat on fire.

A 10-year-old Washington state boy was sentenced on Wednesday to up to 5 1/2 years in a juvenile detention facility for his role in a foiled plot to rape and kill a girl at his school and harm other children.

While some of the cats look somewhat cute posing on sticky rice, others appear terrified and some are just downright strange.

The gift to Senator Mike Duffy of more than $90,000 from Nigel Wright, the Prime Minister's chief of staff, is one of the more fanciful transactions to have taken place on a Parliament Hill in quite some time.

Law enforcement officials are saying little about the bizarre string of events that led to a killing spree in northern Nevada that left five people dead.

In this handout photo provided by the FSB, acronym for Russian Federal Security Service, wigs and spying gadgets carried by a man claimed by FSB to be Ryan Fogle, a third secretary at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, when he was detained, are shown in the FSB offices in Moscow, early Tuesday, May 14, 2013.

Hunter snags bird out of the air. And, jaded world in which we live, we're all immediately thinking FAKE.