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A man at a New Jersey chocolate processing plant died after falling into an 8-foot deep vat.
The accident happened as the worker was loading chocolate into the vat where it's melted and mixed before being shipped elsewhere to be made into candy. Link
A Dr Who fan has had a sci-fi send-off at his funeral — in a coffin shaped like a Tardis.
Seb Neale, 26, died after a fall at home in Risca, South Wales.
The order of service card showed him posing as the Doctor. And the readings were lines from the show, including: “One day I shall come back. Goodbye.” Link
I wonder if she knows the guy that goes down the up escalator?
Victor Gonzalez thought his Friday couldn't get any worse when he got the sack from his job but when he returned home he discovered his house was on fire. Being the optimist, Gonzalez said if he wasn't fired he wouldn't have got home to catch his house from burning down completely.
You can view a news video here.
We need something like this in the UK. the well made site allows you to filter mugshot by gender, age, weight, height and eye colour. I wonder if they realise that within a few hours their mugshot is online for the world to see. [via @shotbykim]
I struggle with most balloons.
A street cleaner in Lincoln, England has got a real challenge on his hands.
Graham Hill found a bag containing an estimated £10,000 in shredded cash in a rubbish bin and police have allowed him to keep it.
The Bank of England will exchange the money but only if he can piece it together. As you can see from this picture, the pieces are quite large so providing most of the serial numbers are intact, he should be able to make a few quid.
I can't remember school being this interesting. (SFW)
A man has beaten the record for 'Most Seats Sat in 48 Hours' by sitting on 39,250 seats.
He began the task Monday morning, and he's still going, hoping to rest his tush in each of the stadium's 92,542 seats by sometime this week.
The 56-year-old, who already holds several other world records, says he has dreamed of tackling the Rose Bowl seats for 20 years _ ever since he sat in all 107,501 chairs at the University of Michigan's football stadium.
The feat has taken a toll on his body and his cleanliness, as soot on the seats rubbed off on his clothes. He says he loves the Rose Bowl but calls the place "filthy."
"This was recorded at Kilometer Zero, also known as the centre of Moscow. When you visit this area you will often see people standing on the Zero Kilometer medallion and throwing coins over their shoulders and making wishes.
Grannies and kid, according to the many tourist brochures, line the area outside of the Kilometer Zero marker and pick up the coins after you toss them, supposedly fun for all."
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A high school student in Houston, TX was surprised to be kicked out by police after turning up to a prom dressed like a hooker. Link
He wanted to be a little bit different and estranged from a regular community. He's definitely succeeded. [via]
This 'Windows Vista toilet paper' was spotted in Japan and provides 'users' something to read whilst on the bog. The toilet paper is printed with information on Service Pack 1.
Meet a man who is addicted to entering contests. His house is little overflowing with all the prizes he has won. He enters around 7 or 8 contests a month by mail and a around 50 a day on the Internet. Over the last 30 years he's won 242 pounds of ice cream, a trip to the Soul Train music awards in Los Angeles, a nail-polish-red Vespa and lots of lotions. He's won so many prizes that he gives them away on his website. [via]
For some, Christmas can be a misery. For Andy Park, can simply can't stop celebrating. For the last 12 years he has eaten 4,380 turkeys and 87, 600 mince pies, given 21, 900 presents and spent a fortune on an array of lights and decorations. He estimates that in total he has spent over £250,000.
He starts his day with a hearty breakfast of six mince pies and a turkey sandwich before heading off to work.
He finishes by 11.30am in order to start roasting a turkey - the traditional Christmas dish.
At 2pm he eats lunch and then pulls crackers, colourful paper tubes that typically adorn the Christmas table.
Crackers are meant to be pulled apart with a bang by two people, with the owner of the larger part receiving a paper hat and novelty goodie. Park, however, usually opens them - about a whopping 40 a day - on his own.
At 3pm he watches a video of Queen Elizabeth II's annual Christmas message to the commonwealth, glass of sherry in hand.
Dinner is roast turkey with all the trimmings, including brussels sprouts, roast potatoes, stuffing, gravy and mushy peas, as well as sherry and wine and a bottle of champagne.
He lays his present under the Christmas tree at 8pm.
Surprisingly, he's got a girlfriend and a 20-year-old daughter. Link
A devoted husband carved a set of 6,000 steps in a mountain over a period of 50 years after he and his older wife eloped to a cave in China. Weird News Asia has the story along with photos and a video.
Portland Winter Hawks fans threw what was reportedly a world record 20,372 stuffed animals on the ice after what they thought was their team's first ice hockey goal of the season -- a goal which officials later disallowed. [via]
A man in Los Angeles was killed when he went through a wood chipper.
The tree service worker "was standing at the back end of the chipper, throwing branches into it with his co-workers nearby," said Sgt. Pat Welch of the Tustin Police Department. "One of them looked over, and he was gone."
"He was one of three workers trimming trees and removing debris from a private residence," he said. "One was in the tree and the other hauling debris. He was there and then he wasn't there; it was an unfortunate industrial accident."
Jose Martinez, owner of JM Tree Service in Anaheim where the men were employed, said Thursday that he was too distraught to talk. "I don't have an explanation to tell you," he said.
He is one of 31 people killed in wood chipper accidents between 1992 and 2002. It ranks up there as being one of the more painful ways of dying.
This could be very handy if you have an office to yourself but I don't think it'd be quite the same if you shared with someone. [via]
Fed up with the crap view, a pensioner in Germany has cut down dozens of trees so that he can get a better view of the Baltic Sea.
Police reported on Thursday that the 80-year-old man admitted to having illegally cut down 122 trees because they obstructed his view of the coast at his vacation home in an expensive part of the town of Scharbeutz near Lübeck in northern Germany.
The police investigating the crime said the tops had been cut off of 66 beech, ash, oak and wild cherry trees and that an additional 55 had been sawed to the ground completely. All of the trees were over 30 years old. The local forestry office is estimating damages at €15,000 ($22,000).
Meanwhile, prosecutors are exploring their options for charging the man for property damage and violating both state and federal nature conservation laws.
The Telegraph has reported about a man who has been placed on the sex offender's register after being caught trying to have sex with a bicycle.
"The accused was holding the bike and moving his hips back and forth as if to simulate sex."
He's not the first person to be convicted of having sex with an unusual object. Karl Watkins, an electrician, was jailed for having sex with pavements in 1993. [via]
By a margin of only a third of a second, a Boston couple claimed victory at the 8th annual North American Wife Carrying Championships held Saturday at Sunday River Ski Resort.
"We could never expect something this good," said Keith Cardoza after successfully bringing Julia Stoner, his girlfriend of six months, through the 253.3 meter course.
For the victory, Cardoza and Stoner may receive $1,000 toward a trip to attend the World Wife Carrying Championships in Finland. The couple were also awarded a check for $675 (five times Stoner's weight) and Stoner's weight in beer. The latter amounted to nine twelve-pack cases.
This kid has got a strange hobby.
2,500 'furries' attended the 11th Annual Anthrocon Convention last weekend. It's the world's largest convention dedicated to "fans of anthropomorphism -- the idea that animals can have human characteristics, or vice versa".
I know a regular reader would probably class themselves as a furry so I'm not going to say anything other than just reporting the story ;o)
10 very bizarre world records including Claudio Pinto who can pop both of his eyes 4 cm (about 1 and a half inch) or 95% out of their sockets.
Is this a ghost? It was recorded by a CCTV camera in a Japanese car park. [via]
A woman who had a new chocolate-coloured sofa set delivered was shocked to find that they came with a packing label identifying the colour as 'Nigger-brown'. Read more.
A fireman from Wayne Township, Ohio has been found wearing a woman’s blond wig and bikini in a public park.
“It was like this freak show,” said Troy Harphant, 35. “I was a little taken by surprise by what I’d seen there. It was out of place with what should have been going on over there, that’s for sure.”
“My wife said, “It’s a lady,’ and I was like, ‘No, it’s not a lady,’ ” Troy Harphant said.
A woman has spent the last 10 years and £20,000 on plastic surgery in a bid to get a husband. Referring to a comment made by a man she had met...
"He made an off the cuff remark about me being beautiful. But when I got home and looked at myself I realised he must have been referring to my mind, and not my face.
"He hadn’t seen the real me because I didn’t look as I felt inside.
"The problem was I had a plain, boorish face. I didn’t feel ugly but when I went out I felt invisible and insignificant.
"When I thought about it more, I came to the conclusion that people looked past me - there was nothing about my face to hold their interest.
I don't understand the logic behind it. You want someone to love you for who you are yet spend a small fortune making yourself look like something you're not. You can view a before picture here. [via]
An interview with a 102-year-old Yemeni man who has a mysterious horn protruding from his head. [via]
I don't know a lot about pregnancy so can babies really kick this hard?
The body of a missing US woman has been found by her family, wedged upside down behind a bookcase in her room. The woman had tried to reach behind the bookcase to adjust the plug for a TV set and got trapped.
Her family spent nearly two weeks searching for her and feared that she had been kidnapped from the house. Her body was eventually discovered when her sister noticed a foot protruding behind the bookcase in her bedroom.
"I'm sleeping in the same house as her for 11 days, looking for her. And she's right in the bedroom," the woman's mother, Connie Weber, told the St Petersburg Times newspaper.
The family told the newspaper they had noticed a strange smell from her room but had blamed it on rats.
Read more. [Thanks Dragun]
To quote Anthony from Ren & Stimpy - "Cartoon characters don't do that!" [via]
32 weirdly specific museums such as brick museums, barbed wire museums and rice museums. [via]
Ever fancied joining the 'mile high club'? Probably not, but if you haven't got the guts to sneak into the toilets for a quick bit of nookie on that transatlantic flight, for just $299 you can take a ride on a Piper Cherokee Six that has apparently been deisnged exclusively for this purpose. The hour long ride will take you to to a height of 5,280ft where you and your partner can lay back on a bed and - 'get it on' - in front of the pilot. As a souvenir you also get to keep the sheets!
Four prisoners hid mobile phones in their backsides so they could plot blackmail, robbery and murder from their maximum security cells.
The ruse was exposed by X-rays after six weeks of investigations into members of the violent Mara Salvatrucha gang in El Salvador’s notorious Zacatecoluca jail. [via]
A man who blew up a speed camera because he feared he would lose his licence after he was snapped speeding has been jailed for four months.
He claimed he was afraid he would lose his job if he was caught speeding. He already had 10 points on his licence and thought he would receive a driving ban if more were added.
Later that night, he drove 40 miles back to the camera with a quantity of material to create a thermite reaction - a process which would melt the camera's metal body in an explosive fire. [via]
One of the dancers having a seizure on stage isn't going to stop this group from finishing their song. [via]
Eveyone needs a holiday, including teddy bears. Teddy Tour Berlin will...
...give your teddy a week’s holiday including a guided tour of Berlin, pick-nick in the zoological garden (Tiergarten) and comprehensive care by a qualified physiotherapist. On top of that, you’ll receive many beautiful holiday pictures as well as a holiday postcard.
Costs vary bepending on where the bear originates from but the cheapest week is 75 euros.
Here's a photo of the man who got stuck waist deep in a big vat of chocolate that I linked to yesterday. There's also a video but it only shows still pictures of the man in chocolate.
Lee Redmond has clawed her way into the Guinness World Records by growing her fingernails to nearly 25 feet. The American stopped cutting her talons back in 1979 and has managed to avoid breaking any for the past 27 years.
Her nails, measuring a total of 24ft 7.8ins, don’t stop her doing everyday tasks such as vacuuming and washing up — plus she cares for her husband, who has Alzheimer’s disease. [via]
A 21-year-old US man ended up in hospital after spending two hours trapped in a vat of chocolate, police in Wisconsin said on Friday. The man said he had climbed into the tank before becoming trapped waist-deep in chocolate although he may have fallen in whilst stirring the chocolate.
"It was pretty thick. It was virtually like quicksand," Captain Berner said. "It's the first time I've ever heard of anything like this," he added.
I bet this would be heaven for some people. And if you did die, what a way to go.
The Pastor of the Church of Tom Jones has been getting some stick for using religion in vain. I never even knew such a church existed. Pastor Jack Stahl said Jones's "soulful, spiritual and supernatural" voice helps him contact God.
Based in Sacremento, California, the church uses Tom's music in baptisms, marriages, funerals and exorcisms.
The church has it's own website and even it's on podcast.
"Two brothers were killed in separate motorcycle accidents on the same stretch of road and within just two hours of each other. One was headed to the scene of his brother's accident."
The chances of something like this happening must be a million to one so was it just meant to be?
