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A passenger jet is left with a huge hole in its fuselage after another plane smashed into it at an airport.
But no one suffered so much as a scratch in the scary-looking drama — for the jets were empty, parked and simply blown into each other by Hurricane Wilma. - The Sun
Surprisingly, this 2-legged cat that had both right legs amputated lives a normal life. [via]
I read about these dumb criminals a couple of days ago. The Smoking Gun has more info and pics. [via]
This has to be the best frisbee catch ever. [via]
BBC: Rare squirrel is doorstep visitor
A rare black squirrel has become a regular visitor to a suburban garden.
Carol Eade said she first spotted the squirrel in her garden at Stevenage, Hertfordshire, on Saturday.
Conservationists say the animal - a melanistic form of the grey variety - is unusual but at least one cluster of them is known in Cambridgeshire.
Thanks Darren.
A man who was run over by a train has to have his left hand transplanted on to his right arm in order for it to be saved. Unfortunately this means that the tendons that control the fingers are reversed so that his thumb tendon no longer controls his thumb but controls his little finger. The video shows him trying to make use of his new hand. [via]
A plastic surgeon performs surgery on himself. [via]
A video showing a chase in what could be France and involving very poor driving police. I'm not sure if this is real or staged. [via]
What looks like some target practice using humans. [via]
A Greek restaurant owner has broken the record for the world's largest kebab.
Costas Dasios from Patras made the pork kebab weighing 1,850kgs on a 1.73-metre steel skewer, according to the Kathimerini newspaper.
Around 150kgs of spices and 100kgs of salt were used to add taste to the kebab and a two-ton natural gas tank was used to cook it.
Mr Dasios said: "The city's poor will be the first to get a taste." - Ananova
The Sun: Please mind the gap
A packed train balances precariously over a raging torrent after bridge supports were washed away in a storm.
Had the locomotive travelled just a few feet more, its weight would have pulled ten carriages over the edge to disaster.
The Milan-bound express had been thundering through the darkness at 100mph towards the bridge near Bari, southern Italy.
But luckily the heavy rain had loosened the tracks — causing it to derail and stop just in time.
Click the cat to see what's wrong with this image. [via]
Anyone who's as stupid as this doesn't deserve to walk. [via]
Footage of the Baghdad bombs that exploded near hotels used by foreign media and contractors. In the bottom right of the screen you can see what looks like the cement truck that, according to the BBC, tried to penetrate one of the breaches but got stuck, came under fire and set off his charge.
"Each month features a beautiful image, but in every picture is a nice picturesque pile of dog poop. Professionally photographed, these pictures are almost breath taking, and yet totally disgusting at the same time. Packed with fun facts and stories about dog poop, this calendar is an ingenious gag gift for both the dog lover and the dog hater!"
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Thirteen-year-old twins Lamb and Lynx Gaede have one album out, another on the way, a music video, and lots of fans.
They may remind you another famous pair of singers, the Olsen Twins, and the girls say they like that. But unlike the Olsens, who built a media empire on their fun-loving, squeaky-clean image, Lamb and Lynx are cultivating a much darker personna. They are white nationalists and use their talents to preach a message of hate.
Known as "Prussian Blue" — a nod to their German heritage and bright blue eyes — the girls from Bakersfield, Calif., have been performing songs about white nationalism before all-white crowds since they were nine. - ABCNews
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A cool snapshot from what looks like the crazy St Maarten airport. [via]
I can remember seeing reading about this man in FHM a few years ago. Apparently he caught the flesh-eating disease, necrotising fasciitis whilst out in his garden. Doctor's gave him the option of having his nose and eyes removed or dying. A tough call. He was given a prosthesis which did make him look relatively normal. [via]
Related: Girl gets flesh-eating disease
Update: Here's some more information (w/pics) about the man who sadly died earlier this year. [via]
