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    Belarus man outfoxed, shot by his prey

    As the Yakov Smirnoff joke would go, in Soviet Belarus, you don’t shoot a fox; a fox shoots you. That seems to have been the case when an unnamed hunter approached his wounded prey, hoping to finish the job with the butt of his rifle.  Instead, in the ensuing...
  • If you can’t jump over hurdles, just bash through them [video]

    Videos of hurdles are often as amusing as the event itself. This one comes out of China but as you can see from the second video below – hurdles failure is a universal phenomenon. ...
  • Police vehicle sports accidentally indecent exhaust pipe [SFW]

    Meet “Ron” (if that is his real name). He is putting his stainless steel appendage to good use making the neighborhood safer and amusing fellow members of the Hampshire Constabulary. Design fails don’t come any better or more amusing than this....
  • World much stupider than returning soldier remembered [TSA]

    If you ever needed proof that we are lost in a sea of pointless rules designed to make traveling (and indeed life in general) more difficult than it ever needed to be, this is it. The eminent minds at TSA saw fit to confiscate an armed soldier’s nail clippers...
  • How not to demolish a smoke stack [video]

    If you want to see a perfect example of how not to bring down a 275-foot concrete smokestack, look no further than this video of a botched demolition job at the Ohio Edison Mad River Power Plant in Springfield, Ohio. From what we can see, the explosives failed to...
  • Silver Purity Test Costs German Luger’s Tooth

    Vancouver, Canada: A German athlete broke one of his front teeth when he bit his silver medal as he posed for cameras. David Moeller, who had just placed second in the men’s luge was asked by sports photographers to bite his medal. Unfortunately for Moeller, he bit with a...
  • Oops… Chile Mints Coin That Misspells Own Name

    The general manager of the Chilean mint is out of a job thanks to an embarrassing mix-up: he was at the helm when they minted a coin that misspelled “Chile”. The Telegraph reports that more than a million coins that spelled “Chile” with no Ls and two Is were...
  • Amateur Rocket Sledder Burned In Freak Rocket-backpack Explosion

    A 62-year-old man from Independence Township, Detroit is recovering in hospital after an alcohol, gunpowder and gasoline fueled accident, which occurred at his annual sledding party. The Detroit Free Press reports that the unnamed man, strapped on a rocket backpack of his own construction and sat down on his...
  • Fox News Give it 120%, Claim 94% Of Americans Believe Scientists Faked Climate Data

    The minds behind Fox & Friends may be less bright than they appear. As you can see from the image above, an on-screen graphic shown on Fox News noted that 94% of respondents believed that scientists faked their climate data, while 26% did not. Media Matters explains: Fox News‘...