• Snakes in an Engine Bay… It Does Happen [video]

    This video shows a truly frightening spectacle. A very annoyed looking anaconda had somehow found its way into a car’s engine bay – and had to be removed by some very brave emergency services personnel. If you come from anywhere that has a lot of snakes you might have...
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    Bank robbers blab on Facebook, get nabbed

    It has been said that anything vaguely criminal or unflattering posted on Facebook, whether it be the pictures from that party where you blacked out or a quote by Charlie Sheen, might come back to haunt you later.  In the case of four Houston residents, one Facebook slip-up will...
  • Hidden garage keeps up appearances, adds valuable parking space

    You live in an area where parking spaces are at a premium, have a Victorian style apartment building and don’t want to screw up its aesthetics by sticking a big ugly parking bay underneath it, what do you do? You could do what one building owner in San Francisco’s...
  • Real Madrid defender drops trophy under victory bus [video]

    Here is an example of how not to celebrate winning the Copa del Rey (King’s Cup). Real Madrid right back Sergio Ramos is front and center up the top of the Real Madrid double decker party bus when the trophy slips from his hands and drops to the street...
  • China locks up gang of pregnant shoplifters [Big Belly Gang]

    A gang of pregnant thieves dubbed the “Big Belly Gang” and that has been in action for more than ten years found themselves behind bars yesterday at the end of a month-long police operation. The 47 members were believed to be behind most of the 3,000 cases of shoplifting...
  • Lacing beer with Viagra seems like a dangerous combination

    Not to your health mind you, but the effects of the Viagra, combined with the alcoholic effects of beer, could lead to some unexpected coupling with members of the opposite sex. Which may be what the brains behind the “Royal Virility Performance” beer, Brewdog brewery, are going for.  Why...
  • Old man and caretaker get medieval on home invader with a frying pan and a pitchfork

    The elderly gentleman that you see in this picture is 81-year-old Bobby Smith; the woman next to him is his 65-year-old caretaker Luvina. The pair of them recently made mincemeat of a man armed with a gun who entered their home and demanded money. Smith explained that the intruder...
  • College Paper Goes Topless For Story on Exotic Dancers

    When the powers that be told a Philadelphia college newspaper they couldn’t lead with the story they wanted to they went topless. As in the top half of the first page of the Collegian was blank last Thursday, with the simple words, “See below the fold.” The story was...
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    Computers learning to ‘regret’ decisions, routing paths, and serving humanity

    In Tel Aviv, researchers are working toward integrating computers with ‘regret’ in order to improve overall efficiency. In theory, a computer system would register the difference between a desired outcome and the actual outcome, then attempt alternatives over time to achieve or exceed the desired outcome without instructions by...