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I’m really hoping that this video was staged, because friends should not shoot each other in the abdomen with giant, extremely powerful air cannons. Or perhaps the guys in white coats simply underestimated the power of fat air? ...

The capabilities of this homemade air cannon are so awesome that any “don’t try this at home” disclaimers are bound to ring hollow on deaf ears. Seriously though, when you are dealing with air pressures of greater than 100psi and firing water balloons hard enough to dent a car...

A British chili farmer and pub owner has created the world’s hottest chili. This Naga Viper is Gerald Fowler’s Frankenstein combination of three of the hottest chilies in the world, including the one that was previously ranked as the hottest, the Bhut Jolokia, or ghost chili – which it...

A closed circuit television camera at a Madrid subway station captured the drama as a 41-year-old man fell onto the tracks. Were it not for the quick action of an off-duty police officer, things could have ended up being a lot worse. The officer explained: I observed a stir...

This security camera footage shows the chaos that ensued when a Target store in Buffalo through open its doors for a 4 a.m. sale. Fortunately, everyone appears to survive the incident, which could very easily have ended in tragedy. What is interesting is the reactions of the people who...

A pregnant Israeli woman was reportedly left with severe burns after a Cesarean operation went really, really wrong. The incident, which occurred at the Sheba Medical Centre in Tel HaShomer in 2008, was discovered during an investigation by Israel’s ministry of health. The patient was swabbed with an alcohol...

Epinay-sous-Senart, Paris: A French woman spent two weeks trapped in her own bathroom after a door lock broke and her cries for help fell on deaf ears. Rescue workers who broke into her home found her in what was described as a “very weakened” state. She had survived on...

In my family, we celebrate Festivus, but if you do the whole tree thing then these deadly microbe decorations could be the Christmas tree adornments you were looking for. The set features the Common Cold, Brain Cell, Kissing Disease, E. coli and a season-appropriate Red Amoeba, all larger and...

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...