Rubio Snaps 'Is This a Circus?' Over Shoe Questions, Brit Attacks Woman and Child on Benidorm Beach, DVLA Worker Jailed for £1.3M Car Scam, Atlanta's Exiled Pagan Statue & Rape Arrest in Crete

During a US government hearing, a Democrat starts questioning Senator Marco Rubio about his shoes — Rubio finally snaps, asking "Is this a circus?" and the clip goes viral within hours. On a crowded beach in Benidorm, a British tourist is arrested after allegedly trying to drown a woman in the sea and then attempting to suffocate a five-year-old child with sand. A DVLA worker in the UK is jailed after altering records for written-off and stolen vehicles, allowing car dealers to sell dangerous, unroadworthy cars to unsuspecting buyers — the scam totalled £1.3 million. In Buckhead, Atlanta, an artist builds a giant pagan-influenced deer head sculpture — local groups object, get it relocated, and the artist reinvents himself as "The Storyteller" at the neighbourhood library. And in Crete, an 18-year-old British tourist reports being assaulted in a bar bathroom by a 19-year-old fellow UK holidaymaker, who is arrested and transferred to court the following morning.Five stories. All real. All strange.The Daily Strange — where truth is always weirder than fiction.