Offbeat

• B.C. man ticketed for driving pink Barbie Jeep while impaired during morning commute

  On Sept. 5, an officer was on patrol in the area of 15th Avenue and Nicholson Street at 9 a.m. when they spotted a man driving a pink toy car down the street.

  Crime

  Sep 8, 2025
  
• This Aldergrove alpaca may just be the oldest in the world

  Lolita the alpaca is just shy of her 28th birthday, and is challenging for the Guiness world record for oldest of her breed.

  Aug 8, 2025
  
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• Narcan raccoons, dirty diapers and stuffed animals: 12 of B.C.’s weirdest stories this year

  From a home with walls packed with stuffed animals to thousands of pounds of diapers dumped in the woods, here are a few offbeat B.C. stories that caught our eye in 2024.

  Trending

  Dec 28, 2024
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• Timothée Chalamet crashes his own look-alike contest after police shut down crowded event

  Actor Timothée Chalamet made a surprise appearance at his own look-alike contest in New York, a well-attended event that drew a police order to disperse and at least one arrest.

  Entertainment

  Oct 27, 2024
• ‘You can’t park there’: Video shows SUV crashed into elevator lobby at B.C. casino

  Police are blaming human error — not alcohol or speed — for an accident in which a driver steered their SUV into an elevator lobby at the River Rock Casino in Richmond, B.C.

  Canada

  Sep 27, 2024
• Eby stung, but wasp gets worst of ‘fatal’ encounter on B.C. campaign trail

  British Columbia NDP leader David Eby was upstaged by a wasp that flew down his shirt and stung him during a news conference.

  Sep 26, 2024
• Eccentric moose-adorned art car has ‘jaws dropping’ in B.C.

  Self-described 'eccentric' Lyle Brown-John's current passion is travelling the province in his eye-catching, moose-adorned 'art car.'

  Canada

  Aug 2, 2024
• Instant ‘karma’ for faceplanting thief who stole Nanaimo business’ sign

  The comeuppance was captured on NY-LA Fresh Thread's security cameras on Monday, when two men stole the retailer's 100-pound sign. 

  Crime

  Apr 25, 2024
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• ‘Wait, what?’ Six of our favourite offbeat stories of 2023

  From a bizarre bakery burglary to a pigeon smuggling meth in a backpack, here are a few of the stranger stories Global BC reported in 2023.

  Canada

  Dec 26, 2023
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• Fuzzy fugitive: RCMP in Nanaimo corral Chewy the escaped alpaca

  Chewy the three-year-old alpaca went on a wild and wooly adventure early Thursday morning after escaping his enclosure near Nanaimo.

  Canada

  Nov 10, 2023