Random Absurdity

  • 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...
  • Young woman gets painful lesson on dangers of texting and walking [video]

    First of all, let me point out that I have nothing but sympathy for the young woman involved in this painful-looking accident. The time that it takes for her to start to get up could indicate that she was really hurt. Hopefully she was left with a painful lesson,...
  • Banner Placement Fail

    Posting a banner promoting your newspaper’s dream holiday contest above a shot of one of the worst cruise ship accidents in a long, long time is a really, really stupid idea. Hopefully the good folks working at the Belfast Telegraph have learned something from this experience. Thanks Shane!...
  • African bull frog crushes ants and thumb far more aggressively than bearded dragon [video]

    Bearded dragons are cool at playing iPhone games and everything, but African bull frogs are where it is at. As you can see from this brief video, the frog gives it an honest effort, kills a few ants and suffers humiliating defeat at the hands of a wasp. The...
  • Bearded dragon has gaming skills

    If you have a minute to waste then it is definitely worth checking out this video of a bearded dragon using instincts honed by millions of years of evolution to totally dominate at Ant Crusher. Interestingly, the lizard shoots only for the ants....
  • The strangest coincidence ever recorded? [video]

    This video comes to us by way of submitter Jeff Hix, and describes an unlikely series of events that occurred along the Menai straight off the coast of Wales over the course of 175 years. It is well written, well narrated and is totally worth two-and-a-half minutes of your...
  • If you have a face in your testicle… you really, really need to see a doctor

    Lest you thought that the reviewers at Urology were born without a sense of humor (that much is still up for debate)… The screaming face that you see above you came from ultrasound images of the scrotum of a 45-year-old male (obvious and redundant statement (only males have scrota...
  • Drunk woman refused bikini wax, assaults salon staff with towel BUSTED

    Having a couple of glasses of wine before getting a bikini wax is a common aesthetic secret among women. Getting loaded before one isn’t and can result in short tempers and police arrests. That’s how it played out for a 39-year old Iowa woman. Anna Bacon-Silveira threw a couple...
  • Captain Awesome’s fireworks stunt is a hilariously awesome failure

    Granted, the title above might be considered by some to be something of a spoiler – but knowing that everything is going to go hilariously awry somehow makes this even funnier. Yes, the little pyrotechnical accident might have hurt and we should probably feel sorry for our unfortunate protagonist...