Chinese Drivers Who Blind Others with Full-Beam Headlights Forced to Stare into the Light by Police
When driving at night, there’s nothing quite as annoying as being blinded by the full-beam headlights of another vehicle. Recognizing this problem, the police department recently started punishing offenders by making them stare at their own headlights for a full minute. Hopefully, this will make them see the error of their ways. On November 1st, Shenzen […]
Russian City Repairs Local Infrastructure with the Help of Photoshop
Officials in the Primorski district of Saint Petersburg, in Russia, apparently decided it would be cheaper to hire a good graphic designer to touch up some photos of damaged infrastructure than actually fixing it. According to a news story that went viral on Russian social media a few days ago, the local administration of Primorski district recently […]
Introducing Napflix, a Boring Video Streaming Service Guaranteed to Put Viewers to Sleep
People often prefer to fall asleep while watching TV, but that doesn’t always work out as planned. Sometimes the shows you end up watching turn out to be genuinely interesting and instead of slowly dozing off, you end up spending hours with your eyeballs glued to the screen. But there’s no risk of that happening […]
8-Year-Old Boy Puts on 11 Kilos in 2 Months to Save Dying Father’s Life
Cao Yinpeng, an 8-year-old from Xuzhou, East China’s Jiangsu province, underwent a rigorous fattening up regiment, in order to qualify for a bone marrow transplant necessary to save his father’s life. Earlier this year, Cao’s father was diagnosed with leukemia and doctors told the family that he needed a hematopoietic stem cell transplant to survive. Unfortunately, […]
India’s Most Generous Boss Rewards Thousands of Employees with Cars and Apartments
It’s not entirely unusual for bosses of successful companies to give out bonuses to employees on major holidays, but how many can claim that they are as generous as Savji Dholakia, CEO of Hari Krishna Exports, who recently gifted some 1,200 cars and 400 apartments to over 1,600 of his most loyal and hardworking staffers. “If we […]
Chinese University Bans Public Display of Affection Between Sexes
Students at Qingdao Binhai University, a private vocational university in China’s Shandong province, have recently been warned to avoid public display of affection with the opposite sex, including basic physical interaction, like holding hands or sharing earphones. The learning institution founded in 1992 recently became a hot topic on Chinese social media, after adopting a set […]
Patient’s Fart Sparks Serious Fire During Laser Surgery
A report recently released by the Tokyo Medical University Hospital in Shinjuku Ward revealed that a patient suffered burns on most of her body after passing gas during laser surgery. The incident occurred back in April, but has only made news headlines after a team of external experts conducted a through investigation and concluded that it […]
Being a Bridesmaid in China Is So Dangerous That People Are Hiring Professionals
In the Western world, bridesmaids are also known as maids of honor, but in China, they are more like maids of dishonor. From drinking large quantities of alcohol on behalf of the bride to putting up with groping and other forms of harassment, bridesmaids often take part in traditional customs that most people would consider extremely […]
Local Gang Cleans New Zealand Town of Drug Dealers
Tribal Huk, an ethnic gang from Ngaruawahia, a small town in New Zealand, took it upon themselves to rid their community of methamphetamine dealers, after seeing the local youth negatively affected by the synthetic drug. After giving offenders an ultimatum, the gang cleaned their town of meth dealers in just one weekend. It all started on Thursday, […]
Spanish Junkyard Owner Replaces Guard Dogs with Bullfighting Bulls
After falling victim to no less than seven break-ins last summer, the owner of a second hand auto parts business in Montserrat, Spain, has replaced his guard dogs with a pair of ‘toro bravos’, a Spanish breed of bull used in bullfighting, to roam the property and deter potential intruders. Emilio Cervero told Spanish reporters that his […]
You Need to Fail a Breathalizer Test to Enter the World’s First Hangover Bar
Provided you can find your way to it after a wild night of alcohol-fueled partying, the world’s first hangover bar, in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, promises to make that nasty next-day hangover a lot easier to deal with. Only open from Friday to Sunday, between 10am and 6pm, Amsterdam’s Hangover Bar is decorated as a green oasis […]
Man Rescues Abandoned Pit Bull That Had Been Waiting Outside for His Owners for a Month
A lonely and confused pit bull that had been waiting near a pile of garbage in the street for a whole month, after his owners moved away and left him behind, was recently rescued by a kindhearted animal lover. Photos of Boo, a beautiful black and white pit bull, sitting on top of an old mattress and […]
Man Donates Liver to Total Stranger, She Gives Him Her Heart
When a code-enforcement officer in Frankfort, Illinois decided to donate half his liver to someone that had never met before, in order to save their life, he had no idea that person would one day become his life partner. In March 2014, completely out of the blue, 27-years-old Heather Kruger was diagnosed with stage 4 liver cancer, […]
Canned Polluted Beijing Air Proves Big Hit
Many Beijing residents go to great lengths to avoid breathing the city’s smoggy air, especially when it reaches critical pollution levels, but one local entrepreneur decided that canning and selling this poor quality air as a souvenir would be a great idea. Believe it or not, he was right. After seeing a number of companies achieve commercial success […]
South Korean Man Adopted at Age 3 to Be Deported from the U.S. 37 Years Later
Adam Crapser was just three years old when he was flown from South Korea to be adopted by a U.S. family, but because they never bothered to apply for his naturalization, he is to be deported back to his native country 37 years later. Adam was born Shin Song Hyuk, to a mother who abandoned […]