Random Absurdity

  • Looping Backyard Waterslide is Dangerous in a Good Way

    The waterslide that you see in the videos below looked destined to cause someone a serious injury – it didn’t, though a somewhat rotund gentleman did not remember to keep his head down when riding the secondary slide that jumps through the loop. From Uberreview...
  • Motorcycle rider caught speeding and texting

    A bus passenger captured a motorcycle rider sending a text message while speeding down an Australian highway. The rider has since visited the Traffic and Highway Patrol Command, where he was issued with two infringement notices for using a mobile phone and not displaying L plates – which all...
  • One-percenter might have just had the world’s most expensive single car wreck

    The Aston Martin One-77 is one expensive car. As the name implies, there were only 77 of them made – price tag $2 million, but they tend to trade hands for a lot more than that. Now there is one less of them on the road thanks to a...
  • 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...
  • Chinese playing card sweatshop footage is strangely mesmerizing [video]

    If you think that your job sucks, spare a thought for the people working in this playing card factory in China. Their skills are simultaneously amazing and sad. You have to pack a lot of cards into boxes to be this fast at it. If you have a minute...
  • Machine vends live crabs in Chinese subway

    If you ever wanted to get crabs on a Chinese subway then today is your lucky day… as long as you live within striking distance of Nanjing – where a vending machine is now dispensing reasonably priced crustaceans. The crabs are priced according to size from USD 1.50 –...
  • If your grave marker reads like this then you failed in life

    All I know about Bernard P. Hopkins is that he lived to the ripe old age of 88 in the small town of Caldwell, Texas, his social security number and the fact that he would seem to have upset a few people before he shuffled off his mortal coil....
  • Canadian artist leaves predatory tracks in the snow

    A Canadian artist going by the name of Maskull Lasserre has an oddly amusing hobby. He walks around in the snow wearing boots that leave frightening tracks. The boots, which are of his own design, mimic the paw prints of large predatory animals, or when the mood strikes him,...
  • Potato successfully removed from vicar’s anus

    A vicar aged in his 50s, and who shall remain nameless (for obvious reasons) is said to have sought medical attention at Sheffield’s Northern General Hospital after an unfortunate incident involving a potato and his posterior. According to the UK’s Metro, the vicar in question assured staff that the...