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  • Not your grandma’s Tesla gun

    A budding young mad scientist who goes by the name of Rob built himself this handsome Tesla rifle. Rob turned a spark gap Tesla coil powered by an 18V drill battery into a scary-looking, gun-shaped lightning generator. Rob spared no expense, he cast a Nerf gun in aluminum and...
  • Extreme bill dodgers exit restaurant via 55th-floor balcony

    Skipping out on restaurant bills is a horrible thing to do – but four men in Melbourne certainly did it interestingly when they ordered four cocktails and exited via a balcony on the 55th floor of Melbourne’s Rialto Tower. Chef Shannon Bennett explained: ‘I was in the kitchen last...
  • Bulletproof vest stands up to gun-owner’s idiocy [self-test video]

    Recently, in a trailer somewhere in the United States, a portly, bearded gentleman decided to put his bulletproof vest to the test. There are plenty of smarter ways he could have done this but no, he decided to wear said vest and shoot himself in the stomach with his...
  • Workers lucky to be alive after crane flips backward

    In China’s Henan Province, three workers are lucky to be alive after the crane there were driving flipped backwards, leaving them stranded 40 feet in the air. No word on how long they were stuck up there before firefighters could get them down but judging on the above picture...
  • Surfer claims he rode a great white shark

    It sounds like a story granddad tells you but instead of walking miles and miles to get to school it’s using the back of a great white shark as a surfboard. But it’s the story of American Doug Niblack and he’s sticking to it. Niblack says he was surfing...
  • Police in China pull over mini-van with 66 kids, BUSTED

    Police in China were less than happy to find a mini-van they pulled over had 66 children crammed into it. And there were adults too. It happened in Qinan, in Hebei Province, and police were cracking down on overcrowding. Crack down they did. Inside they found the crammed in...
  • Kitchen planking disaster, FAIL

    You’ve all been told before – planking is dangerous. But does anyone listen? Of course not, nobody cares. But the global fad of trying to make your body as flat as a plank of wood in bizarre places is just not going away, no matter how many people die...
  • Oh My God I Hit My Dad With A Car

    21-year old Brittannie Wagner might never leave the house again without her glasses… or maybe she might if that smirk in her mugshot says more than her words did. Driving home from a night out with friends the Florida native hit a man walking down the street at 1a.m....
  • Sports Reporter Almost Run Over On Live TV

    Some jobs are dangerous. Fighting fires or fighting crime has risk written all over them. But reporting sports scores? Few would think there’s any danger involved in that. San Diego’s sports director Ben Higgins would beg to differ. Higgins was almost run over by a car during a live...