• Brits to use Crematorium to heat public swimming pool!

    We’ve always thought that the Swedes were a strange people, they make the oddest cars under the form of Saabs and Volvos, and their ladies fly around the room, singing atop of their lungs while wearing horned caps, and showing massive cleavages. Lately however, they’ve become even stranger when...
  • Woman beats off robbers . . . with a handbag

    A daring, five-foot-nothing grandma in a red coat sprints across a street in Northhampton and gives a gang of sledgehammer-wielding toughs a good dose “what a naughty, naughty boy”, knocking one of them from his scooter and interrupting a robbery-in-progress. Pay close attention as an officer enters the frame...
  • Anapka, the para-sailing donkey, dies of heart failure.

    Last July, in what became possibly the worst publicity stunt in advertising history, a Russian para-sailing company, strapped Anapka, a 39 year old female donkey to a parachute, and forced it to sail over a southern Russia beach. Onlookers soon posted videos of the terrified wailing donkey on Youtube...
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    China’s ‘Top Gun’ gaffe

    State-sponsored China Central Television recently ran a clip of the country’s newest J-10 fighter engaging in mock combat maneuvers.  Evidently at a loss for things to blow up, the clip features an air-to-air missile taking down enemy aircraft from the 1986 film Top Gun. Although China has not admitted...
  • Up close and personal with a category 5 cyclone [Cyclone Yasi Stream]

    Recorded Earlier in the day by SkyCam Home webcam from Townsville resident’s backyard Live video by Ustream Home webcam facing street Live Broadcasting by Ustream Streaming live video by Ustream If you ever wondered what it looked like to be inside a category 5 storm, this is it –...
  • Retired Gorkha takes on 40 armed robbers

    A train robbery in West Bengal went horribly awry for a gang of 40 bandits armed knives, swords and pistols – when they encountered the sharp end of a retired Gorkha’s khukuri. The robbers stopped the train and were busy relieving passengers of their valuables when they came across...
  • Suicide bomber killed by explosive spam

    A would-be Russian suicide bomber is reported to have been detonated when an ill-timed message arrived on her phone to wish her a happy new year. The woman and two suspected accomplices (who are believed to be part of the same group that killed 35 people at Moscow’s Domodedovo...
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    Ambitious litterbugs drop 200 paper planes from upper atmosphere

    For most of us, paper airplanes are a somewhat entertaining waste of time and paper.  For Project Space Planes, which seeks to grab a world record for the longest flight by a paper plane, they are quite serious business indeed. From an altitude of 36,500 feet over Germany, two...
  • If you thought Australia was weird…

    It gets better; They now have a glow in the dark lake, at the Gippsland Lakes in Victoria, Australia. Relax though, this has nothing to do with intra-galactic aliens or bio-hazards, it’s a bacteria known as Noctiluca Scintillans and it’s awesome for several different reasons. Firstly because it glows...