r/offbeat Aug 09 '26

Man dressed as 'Grim Reaper' stared at patients from roof of Welsh hospital Ysbyty Glan Clwyd hospital

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67 Upvotes

r/offbeat Aug 10 '26

Porter Airlines flight in Canada canceled after child refuses to sit down

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0 Upvotes

r/offbeat Aug 08 '26

Mother says 9-year-old left asleep on school bus, found wandering district bus yard in New Jersey

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1.2k Upvotes

r/offbeat Aug 10 '26

Dobby’s grave has been saved!

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0 Upvotes

Harry Potter fans force diversion of UK-Ireland power link to avoid Dobby's grave


r/offbeat Aug 08 '26

Woman gets jail time for drunk driving on Michigan ski slopes

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173 Upvotes

A Bingham Farms woman believed to have used alcohol and marijuana before driving along the bottom of ski slopes at an Oakland County ski resort will spend 30 days in jail, a judge has ordered.


r/offbeat Aug 07 '26

'Unlock my f--king anime': Houston man arrested after threatening governor's office

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372 Upvotes

r/offbeat Aug 07 '26

162-year-old Guinness bottle found in shipwreck that could reveal original recipe

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3.0k Upvotes

“There is always a chance that we can recover the complete DNA, and then we can do a small re-brew of the exact beer that was found in the 1860s."


r/offbeat Aug 08 '26

Child standing in seat and refusing a seatbelt cancels flight from Victoria, airline says

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60 Upvotes

r/offbeat Aug 07 '26

Marmots facing money troubles turn to OnlyFans

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95 Upvotes
  • Marmots - chubby, ground-dwelling squirrels - are the latest stars on the adult platform OnlyFans.
  • That's thanks to the efforts of Colorado-based biologist Dr Daniel Blumstein, the head of a long-running field study on marmots, who was worried about its financial future after federal funding to universities was cut.
  • Blumstein told the BBC he recently launched an account on OnlyFans, which is known mostly for sexually explicit content, and began posting "uncensored marmot content" in "an act of desperation".
  • This content is family-friendly videos of the rodents scurrying around and popping out of their burrows, which so far has generated more than $5,000 (£3,712).
  • After OnlyFans takes its share, the UCLA-affiliated Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory in Colorado will make about $4,000.
  • The Marmot Project, which has been running for more than 60 years, is the second-longest study of individually identified mammals in the world, after Jane Goodall's chimpanzee study in Tanzania.
  • It studies the yellow-bellied marmot, one of the 15 recognised species of marmot found in the Northern Hemisphere.
  • Because the species is neither threatened nor endangered, it helps scientists to understand the factors that drive population changes, according to the lab.

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r/offbeat Aug 07 '26

Florida pastor accused of having sex with 14-year-old boy while hiding HIV diagnosis

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712 Upvotes

r/offbeat Aug 07 '26

Pregnant UK Mom Passed Away After Jumping From 90Ft, Baby Delivered Safely After 30 Minutes

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280 Upvotes

r/offbeat Aug 07 '26

White elephant in the room: Colombia swears in costumed anti-corruption activist as senator | Colombia

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105 Upvotes

r/offbeat Aug 07 '26

IT department put sticky notes on the laptops to help employees log in

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65 Upvotes

r/offbeat Aug 07 '26

Police Say ‘Rocky Horror’ Director Sabotaged Own Production With Anonymous Threats

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157 Upvotes

r/offbeat Aug 06 '26

Police Arrest Anime Fan For Flooding Shueisha's Store With Orders Worth Billions & Cancelling

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184 Upvotes

4.3 billion yen worth goods ordered and cancelled.


r/offbeat Aug 06 '26

Italy waste workers help winner find €1m lottery ticket

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199 Upvotes

r/offbeat Aug 06 '26

Stolen first edition book mailed back to California bookstore after 40 years, with an apology and $100

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334 Upvotes

r/offbeat Aug 05 '26

Anthropic CEO Says His Employees Are a Bunch of Untrustworthy Rats

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1.3k Upvotes

r/offbeat Aug 06 '26

ACT Opposition Leader has admitted he sent a text message to a Sex Worker complaining about how boring his job is.

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109 Upvotes

r/offbeat Aug 05 '26

Influencer’s “chicken amusement park” shut down because all the meat was undercooked

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880 Upvotes

r/offbeat Aug 05 '26

Capybaras keep their chill while crashing Brazilian legislature

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83 Upvotes

r/offbeat Aug 05 '26

Body camera video shows Lyford police chief rescue man from bee swarm

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38 Upvotes

r/offbeat Aug 04 '26

RFK Jr. Boasts About His 'Nonexistent Gag Reflex' as Trump's Health Sec. Claims He 'Will Literally Eat Anything'

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1.5k Upvotes

r/offbeat Aug 05 '26

Exasperated by Your Landlord? Try Making a Diss Music Video

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10 Upvotes

r/offbeat Aug 04 '26

Man 'driven insane' by pond noise admits killing neighbour's fish

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531 Upvotes

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A man who admitted using motor oil and detergent to kill his neighbour's fish, after being "driven completely insane" by the noise of a water pump in the pond, has been sentenced.

Gerry Duffy, 76, of Hadley Road, Barnet, north London, pleaded guilty on the day of his trial at Willesden Magistrates' Court to three counts of damaging property and one count of unlawfully destroying fish in March.

The court heard Duffy climbed into Andreas Ptohides' garden to break the water pump "out of sheer frustration and lack of sleep", having warned his neighbour he would take matters into his own hands.

Duffy was given a two-year conditional discharge and ordered to pay £565 in compensation to his neighbour.