Japan Votes Out Unconscious Mayor, Data Center's Secret Pipes Drain Town's Water, Supermodel's Met Gala Denial, Bear Tries to Break Into Bakery & Peeping Tom Brings His Own Step Stool

In a small Japanese town, the council votes to remove their 72-year-old mayor from office — he has been unconscious due to illness for months and never knew it happened. In Fayetteville, Georgia, residents in an upscale neighbourhood spend months wondering why their water pressure is so low — investigators eventually discover a nearby data centre had been secretly drawing 30 million gallons through unbilled pipes. Supermodel Anok Yai takes to social media to flatly deny a Washington Post story suggesting she had a bathroom accident at the Met Gala, accusing the paper of spreading a false and humiliating rumour. In Gatlinburg, Tennessee, security cameras catch a black bear standing on its hind legs and pawing at a bakery's glass door, apparently lured by the smell of fresh pastries, before giving up and wandering off. And in an apartment complex, 55-year-old Andrade Robinson is arrested after residents set up surveillance cameras and catch him using window sills — and then fetching a step stool from his car — to peer through students' curtains and take photos.Five stories. All real. All strange.The Daily Strange — where truth is always weirder than fiction.