accidents

In a bid to promote road safety on country roads in Australia, one town is opting for a month long name change. Speed, a small town in the rural areas of Victoria with a population of 45, is changing its name to Speedkills for the month of March. The...

Watching a video like this you can’t help but feel for the hapless fellow that had the misfortune to be filling the wine shelf at a liquor store at 5:06 p.m. two Sundays ago. Fortunately for him, there was a camera recording the whole time… both for our enjoyment...

Thirty-six-year-old Adam Potter went “down” to the 3589-foot summit of Sgurr Choinnich Mor. Somewhere near the top things went catastrophically wrong; Potter lost his footing and fell… and fell… and fell… In his own words: I tried to slow myself down on the ice and snow. I was jabbing my...

The two gentlemen that you see in the mugshots to your left are Samuel “Sammy” Davis (sans hair) and 24-year-old Ismael Ortiz – they are in hot water over a little insurance-related arson incident in which they may or may not have taken part. Police say that Davis paid...

A Florida man caused a significant amount of damage to his home when he decided to smoke a colony of bees out of his house. Mario Go of Lake Worth is said to have run into trouble when the support column, which housed the bees, caught fire. The column...

In what can only be described as a parents nightmare, this video shows that some people never grow up… and some are lucky if they get to grow up at all – a collection of people of various ages doing stupid things. My personal favorite, the guy who misses...

A pregnant Israeli woman was reportedly left with severe burns after a Cesarean operation went really, really wrong. The incident, which occurred at the Sheba Medical Centre in Tel HaShomer in 2008, was discovered during an investigation by Israel’s ministry of health. The patient was swabbed with an alcohol...

An Austrian boy suffered serious burns when a Halloween prank went badly wrong. The 13-year-old and a 10-year-old friend reportedly poured gasoline on a plastic slide at a playground in Kraubath, Styria and set it alight. Then things veered scarily off course. When the fire threatened to spread, and...

The Internet abounds with horror stories about Internet addiction – people have killed and been killed because of it, marriages have broken up, educations have been ruined – as usual, everyone remembers the bad and forgets the good. Australian Demitrios Bisbelis owes his life to his Internet addiction. Had...