Darwin

  • Man injured while trying to clean lit fireplace… with aerosol

    A Colorado Springs man will be spending this Christmas in hospital with second-degree burns after he decided to clean his fireplace… while it was on fire… with an aerosol can. No explanation has been offered why the man tried to clean his natural-gas fireplace with an aerosol cleaner while...
  • Sledding behind a fighter jet, what could possibly go wrong? [video]

    The forgettable action flick, Point Break might have been entirely forgotten were it not for Bodhi’s memorable maxim: “it’s not a tragedy to die doing something you love.” That quote springs to mind when watching these crazy Swedes sledding behind a fighter jet. As far as crazy winter activities...
  • A good reason for health insurance

    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...
  • Russian thrill seekers find new way to cheat death [rooftop bungee sledding]

    What could possibly go wrong with an amateur rooftop bungee sledding adventure? Let’s start with the improvised bungee cord. It could either break or stretch too long. There’s also the massive building that our young adventurer could easily have swung into, oh and the icy, snow-covered roof that everyone...
  • Apparently, you can survive jumping into a pile of snow from a multi-story building [video]

    There are stupid ways to kill time and test your mettle in winter… and then there’s this. Seriously, if you are jumping from tall buildings into piles of snow its probably only a matter of time before you hit something under the snow that is less forgiving. Please do...
  • Better ways to earn a Darwin award: Roping into an active volcano

    Rappelling, abseiling, whatever you want to call it is a reasonably safe activity when you control all of the elements of risk and don’t have a lake of molten rock bubbling away beneath you… not to mention the toxic gases. All ended well this time. From Mike: Lava lakes...
  • Darwin woman strips naked after fist fight

    In July this year, Territorians had a heated verbal stoush over topless bathing. It seems some of the locals are fed up with ‘leering men’ finding any excuse to go down the beach for a stroll. Darwin, capital of Australia’s Northern Territory, has long had a reputation for being different. Its best...
  • Dummkopf self-detonates dismantling found grenade

    A 53-year-old Croatian man is in a serious condition after he decided disassemble a hand grenade that he found while out on a walk. The man, who has been identified as Marko S. found the unexploded grenade, a remnant from the 1991-95 Homeland War, in a field near his...
  • Brave or Stupid? …. definitely stupid!

    In what could only be considered a temporary Australian, a very brave stupid Victorian man was photographed swimming right in front of a crocodile trap at a Northern Territory waterhole, the same waterhole where a large saltie has already been caught this year. Tim Cotter photographed the act of stupidity in front of the trap at Koolpin Gorge, at...