Archive for the ‘Stories that made me slack-jawed!’ Category
Did you see it?
The moon passes between the sun and the earth during a solar eclipse as seen in Changsha, Hunan province, China, July 22, 2009.
REUTERS/Stringer
Chocoholics, read this!
Are you a chocoholic? How about two bars of “super-strength chocolate specially formulated by Belgian chocolatiers” daily for one year? Interested? All in the name of medical science, of course!
Researchers at the University of East Anglia and a hospital in Norwich, eastern England are trying to find out whether chocolate can cut the risk of heart disease and need 40 women to step forward and help.
Oh, but there’s a catch here: volunteers should be menopausal but under the age of 75 and should have type two diabetes.
According to study coordinator Peter Curtis: “A successful outcome could be the first step in developing new ways to improve the lives of people at increased risk of heart disease.”
You’ve never seen overcrowded such as this!
Those are Hindu devotees traveling in an obviously overcrowded passenger train last July 22, 2009. The people came from a holy dip and prayer offering in the waters of Brahma Sarovar, a sacred pond, during the solar eclipse in the northern Indian city of Kurukshetra.
Thousands of people gathered for a dip in the Ganges because they believe that it is an act that will lead them to salvation from th cycle of life and death.
Awesome!
A brilliant photo showing lightning over the Uruguayan capital of Montevideo. Wow!
A flying stingray?
A stingray leaps out of the water as it is hunted by a killer whale, whose fin can be seen below the ray, just off St. Heliers beach in Auckland, New Zealand.
Amazing, isn’t it?
(AP Photo/New Zealand Herald Photograph, Brett Phibbs)
Love the hair!
A model presents a creation by Colombian designer Diego Morales during the Expomoda 2009 show in Palmira province, June 4, 2009.
Robot with a soft touch
According to Reuters.com, this robot, presented during a demonstration at the FOOMA Japan international food machinery and technology exhibition in Tokyo, June 12, 2009, has soft pneumatic fingers that can handle delicate objects without crushing them. A fine example: handling plastic sushi.
Japan will never stop until they could finally clone a human robot. I bet sooner or later, they will be unveiling a robot with arms and legs that of human. And then a face closer to human’s. And then a body. And then…
Who knows?!
Do I eat this or not?
Quadruple Bypass Burger
A restaurant in Chandler, Arizona called Heart Attack Grill offers hospital theme and triple and quadruple bypass burgers. Interesting idea! Do they want to turn off their customers from eating by scaring them with the burgers or do they want to actually sell those disgustingly yummy burgers?
Who’d like to share this burger with me?
Backache? Try Hujama!
Want to try the traditional Islamic treatment method called Hujama?
First, a Palestinian Hujama therapist will make incisions on your skin. Then, he will create a vacuum on the skin by placing inverted cups on certain parts of the body (in this photo, on the man’s back). And then, he will draw blood from the incisions on the skin.
Now, who wants to try this?!
Insult the staff and get free drinks
Now, this is interesting…
A bar in Cullera, near Valencia, called Casa Pocho is encouraging clients to insult its staff. In this Spanish bar, customers and staff argue and insult each other in a friendly way. The client who can dish out original or hilarious abuse will be getting free drinks!
Now, this is the bar for someone I know!
Polish-born bar owner Bernard Mariusz said he thought people needed somewhere to release their frustrations at a time of economic crisis, employing the Spanish language’s rich store of earthy obscenities.
Need a hat?
A woman wears a unicorn-shaped hat during Ladies day at the Epsom Derby Festival at Epsom Downs in Surrey, southern England June 5, 2009.
REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth
Hitler’s head was ripped off!
A man reportedly ripped off the head of a controversial waxwork figure of Adolf Hitler. This happened on the opening day of Berlin’s Madame Tussauds museum. The man did it as a sign of protest. The waxwork figure of a glum-looking Adolf Hitler in a mock bunker during the last days of his life had been criticized as being in bad taste.
Which is… true!
Why would you make a waxwork of a man who started World War Two and ordered the extermination of Europe’s Jews?!?
Hitler had it coming!
Crazy shiz!
Bad smelling fridge
Always clean your fridge! Otherwise, you’d end up with a noxious smell sooo bad! Hahaha
A California office worker reportedly cleaned a refrigerator that was full of rotten food. The fridge was unplugged. The smell created by the clean up, a mixture of old rotten lunches and disinfectant, caused 28 people to need treatment for vomitting and nausea. That bad! Yikes!
Firefighters had to evacuate the AT&T building in downtown San Jose on Tuesday after the fumes led someone to call emergency services. A hazardous materials team was called in. What crews found was an unplugged refrigerator crammed with moldy food.
Luckily, the worker who cleaned the fridge is fine because she can’t smell due to allergies.
Crazy Photo of the Day
Picture of a car that doesn’t have a working parking break so its leaning against a huge tree block.
Hehehe
Extra something in Happy Meal
Swiss police is investigating a 7-year-old girl’s discovery of a condom in her McDonald’s Happy Meal. Eww! The girl’s mother called the police after she was told that her daughter found the condom in her French fries. An analysis is being done to determine if the condom found poses a health risk to the girl.
McDonald’s in Switzerland declined to comment because of the ongoing investigation. Or probably out of shame!
Brotherly love
If this isn’t the height of craziness then I don’t know what is…
A man, wanting to join his brother in jail, shoved a police officer with his fist. Thirty-five-year-old David Jacob Ginnis from Alaska pleaded guilty to assault on a police officer and was sentenced to 30 days in jail, with the full sentence suspended.
Ginnis appeared to be intoxicated and was actually asking if he could speak to his brother at the back of the patrol car. The latter was arrested on a criminal trespass charge.
Well, he got his wish! He’s now joining his brother in jail. Stupid man!
Tinker Bell reunited with her owners
A 70-mph gust of wind blew away a six-pound Chihuahua named Tinker Bell and tossed her out of sight. Thanks to a pet psychic that the couple, Dorothy and Lavern Utley, asked for help in finding their beloved pet. The psychic guided them to a wooded area nearly a mile where Tinker Bell was last seen.
When they found the pup, it was dirty and hungry but otherwise okay.
A marching band baton weapon!
Who would have thought?!?
A 17-year-old girl from Quartz Hill, California beat two would-be muggers using her marching band baton! Los Angeles County sheriff’s Deputy Michael Rust said that the two thugs approached the girl from behind while she’s walking to school. The two tried to grab the girl’s coat and demanded money.
What they got instead were a punch in the nose and a kick to the groin. Ouch! Then she beat the two using her baton before running away.
Ha-ha-ha
Virgin Mary in the griddle
At the border of California and Mexico, more than 100 people have flocked to look at the likeness of the Virgin Mary found while the griddle was being cleaned. According to restaurant manager, Brenda Martinez, the small town of Calexico, California is the place for awe-struck people, including a group of masked Mexican wrestlers, where the face of Our Lady of Guadalupe chose to appear in a griddle. The said item is now placed in a storage room in a shrine.
Will you still eat at Domino’s Pizza?
This is totally disgusting!!! Why would people do this? Two members of a Domino’s Pizza crew uploaded a video of themselves doing disgusting things to customer orders. The two stupid persons uploaded this video in YouTube on April 13, 2009 but later took it down. Unfortunately, someone was able to grab the video already and re-uploaded it.
Now, the two disgusting persons were fired from their jobs! And most likely won’t be getting jobs from any food-related establishments out there.
Check out the video below.
Gross!
