photo: ClydeHouse Last week I posted about Yen and Euros falling from the sky, this week its the ATM machines. From article: CUSTOMERS flocked to a bank’s ATM when it started dishing out FREE cash. Twenty pound notes were dispensed instead of tenners when a bank worker loaded the wrong cartridge. A queue of City(…)
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Hoax nuke blast seen on TV weather
PRAGUE, Czech Republic (AP) — Members of a Czech art group who hacked into television broadcasting with images of a hoax nuclear explosion were charged and will have to stand trial, a state prosecutor said Thursday.art.nukeblast.jpg The six members of the Prague-based Ztohoven group were charged last month with spreading false information and face(…)
Tonight only! Zombie strippers at the Admiral: The undead meet the unclothed
From The Chicago Tribune: One rips off a bikini top. The other rips an arm off a hapless victim, beating the just-single-limbed person mercilessly before feasting on the bloody remains. Neither wants you touching them. Exotic dancers and zombies, the two grand pillars of American subculture, have finally joined forces — thus proving our nation’s(…)
Polite English thief sends flowers by way of apology…
LONDON—A repentant robber in England sent his elderly victim a bouquet of flowers to apologize for frightening her, police said Friday. A 91-year-old woman received the flowers and a note after confronting a burglar in her home around 4 a.m. on Oct. 9, police said. The card explained that the burglar thought the property in(…)
“This is How We Roll in India” — Funny clip
Thanks Noah.Similar previous post:Crazy Saudi kids 'road surfing'
“Mr Bain, who is usually known as the Reverend Roly, has spent 16 years travelling the world spreading the Christian message through his work as a clown and a wirewalker.”
A ringmaster's top hat doubled as a font when a circus troupe gathered inside a big top for the christening of two performers' godchildren. Honey Hunt, three, and her sister Poppy, 10 months old, were baptised inside Zippo's Circus ring on Hove Lawns on the Sussex seafront. The service was performed by the Rev Roly(…)
40 acre cornfield maze makes Guinness World Record
The elaborate corn maze in Dixon, 40 acres in size, has been certified as the largest in the world by Guinness World Records. It's easy to get lost in the tall stalks that make up the maze. Link with more pictures
“Proof” that NASA knows about the alien base on the Moon and airbrushed the pictures
NASA Airbrushed UFOs – Lunar Base Towers Link to YouTube
Exterminate! Exterminate! Daleks invade Manchester
From BBC: Daleks bid to make world record A bid to create a new world record and have the biggest number of people dressed up as daleks in one location has taken place in Manchester. The Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester brought together 67 home-made Daleks on Sunday afternoon. Their original creator, Raymond(…)
San Francisco’s annual St Stupid’s Day Parade
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…stripped of their clothes were Adolf Hitler, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Josef Stalin, Charles de Gaulle…
Photo: Alice and Indiana Jones Dublin, Ireland: The theft of National Wax Museum figures will not stop next month's reopening of the tourist attraction, the museum's management insisted today. Dozens of models, including Bob the Builder, the Teletubbies and Frankenstein , were stolen from a warehouse in central Dublin last month. Replica uniforms from the Easter(…)
The Great Iraq Swindle
From Rolling Stone Magazine: How is it done? How do you screw the taxpayer for millions, get away with it and then ride off into the sunset with one middle finger extended, the other wrapped around a chilled martini? Ask Earnest O. Robbins — he knows all about being a successful contractor in Iraq. You(…)
Airport woman baffles Hondurans
(image: sheilaz413) Officials in Honduras are trying to solve the mystery of a woman believed to be from Africa who has been living at an airport there for over a month. The woman, who says her name is Sara Williams and comes from Burkina Faso, told the BBC she was stranded after being robbed of(…)
1943 Guide to Hiring Women
This is pretty ridiculous, but below is the transcript: “Eleven Tips on Getting More Efficiency Out of Women Employees: There’s no longer any question whether transit companies should hire women for jobs formerly held by men. The draft and manpower shortage has settled that point. The important things now are to select the most efficient(…)
European Farmers’ Anger Spills Into the Streets of Brussels — view the picture…
From NYTimes: BRUSSELS — After months of complaints by European dairy farmers angry over low prices, protesters in Brussels on Monday poured milk onto the streets, hurled eggs and other missiles, and started fires that filled the air with black smoke.
EBay pulls the auction of Belgium from its site
Clip: Internet auction website eBay on Monday withdrew an unusual second-hand sale item, the country of Belgium, which had attracted an offer of 10 million euros (13.9 million dollars). "Belgium, a kingdom in three parts" was posted on the Belgian ebay site as offering "plenty of choice" despite the caveat that it comes with "300(…)
The mystery of how an animal has survived for 80 million years without sex has been solved by UK scientists
There could be some benefit to millions of years without sex after all—Dr Alan Tunnacliffe, University of Cambridge Clip from article: A Cambridge team says the creature owes its existence to a genetic quirk that offers some recompense for its prolonged celibacy. Many asexual organisms have died out because they cannot adapt to changes in(…)
Gay flamingos pick up chick
John Waters, Devine? Well not quite… LONDON (AFP) – A pair of gay flamingos have adopted an abandoned chick, becoming parents after being together for six years, a British conservation organisation said Monday. Carlos and Fernando had been desperate to start a family, even chasing other flamingos from their nests to take over their eggs(…)
