Grilled Ice Is Apparently a Real Street Snack in China
Videos of people grilling ice cubes and seasoning them with sauces and spices have been doing the rounds on Chinese social media and leaving people with unanswered questions. Move over, stir-fried stones, it’s time for grilled ice cubes to enjoy their time in the social media spotlight. According to a number of news reports from […]
Man Puts His Head into One of the World’s Most Powerful Water Fountains
A Swiss man ended up in the hospital after reportedly putting his head into the Jet D’Eau, a giant water fountain on Lake Geneva, and being thrown several meters into the air. According to eyewitness reports, the 20-something man, whose name has not been revealed, somehow breached the security perimeter around Geneva’s famous Jet d’Eau […]
Millionaire Wants to Buy a Mountain So He Can Turn It Into His Own Mount Rushmore
If you happen to own a mountain or cliff that you’ve been struggling to sell, maybe you can strike a deal with this multimillionaire who wants to carve his family’s faces into it, Mount Rushmore style. Online luxury marketplace HushHush.com recently revealed that a mysterious multimillionaire reached out to them with a very unusual request […]
Man Drives 40 Miles with 3,000 Bees Loose in His Truck, Doesn’t Get Stung Once
Wallace Leatherwood , a beekeeper from North Carolina, went through what most people would consider a living nightmare and came out unscathed. He drove 40 miles with thousands of bees loose in the cabin of his truck, and didn’t get a single sting. Last Tuesday, Leatherwood bought about 18,000 bees from Wild Mountain Bees in Weaverville, […]
Man Attacks Actor Playing Roman Soldier in ‘Passion of Christ’ Play to Save Jesus
A Brazilian man was recently arrested after jumping on stage during a Passion of the Christ theater play and hitting an actor playing a Roman soldier over the head with a motorcycle helmet, in a bid to save Jesus from getting crucified. The bizarre incident took place last week, in the Brazilian town of Nova […]
Darwin Award Candidate Cements His Head Inside a Microwave
It seems that these days people will go to any lengths for some attention on social media. Take YouTube, for example: it abounds in clips that will certainly make you go “Wow!” but also question the sanity of the uploaders. One guy enjoying his 15 minutes of fame right now is 22-year-old Jay Swingler from […]
Real-Life Spider-Man Climbs 1,500-Foot Rock Wall without Any Safety Equipment
American rock climber Alex Honnold has had an incredibly good (and miraculously lucky) start to 2014. He managed to climb El Sendero Luminoso, a 1,500 foot wall, without the use of any safety gear. Alex is being dubbed a ‘real-life Spiderman’, but I wouldn’t agree with that moniker because even Spiderman spun a web and […]
Singaporean Woman Lives on Toilet for 932 Days
A 58-year-old Singaporean woman lived on the toilet for over two years, before she was forced to undergo treatment. She felt that someone was holding her down and preventing her from leaving the toilet. Quite understandably, she had been suffering from depression for a long time. According to her 64-year-old husband, Ong Kean On, the […]
Crazy Drinking Habits: Vodka Eyeballing
Last week I wrote about a dangerous drinking game using vodka-soaked tampons, and this week we continue the crazy drinking habits series with an equally bizarre method of consuming alcohol called vodka eyeballing. Bet you didn’t know you can drink with your eyes, did you? Believe me, I was as shocked as you are right […]
Woman Spends $8,000 on Plastic Surgery to Look Like a Drag Queen
21-year-old Collagen Westwood has admired drag queens ever since she was a little girl and is now doing everything she can to look like one. The aspiring singer, whose childhood idols were Boy George, Lily Savage and Dead or Alive lead singer Pete Burns, says her mother had a lot of drag queen friends, so […]
Elephant Dung Stilettos Prove Fashion Stinks
Featuring a 10-inch tall platform, made out of elephant poop, these crazy stilettos stink, for real. Created by London-based designer, INSA, the elephant dung shoes are a response to the famous work of Chris Ofili, who used elephant dung in all of his paintings. INSA retraced Ofili’s footsteps, from over 15 years ago, and used […]