The finals of that big European sporting event…

"An Estonian couple walked away with the world wife-carrying crown this weekend. Oh — did you think we were talking about another big sporting event? The annual race, held in Finland, involves a 250-meter track, complete with pools and hurdles, with the men running or...

Cripes, is nothing safe anymore?

"Prepare youself for a shock. I mean it. Turns out, getting tattoos from unlicensed places isn’t quite as healthy as we all assumed it was. Federal health officials have three words for us: “flesh-eating disease.” Six recent outbreaks of infections with...

The light at the end of the tunnel, so to speak?

"Do you ever wake up in the morning with some puzzling itch or minor pain that wasn’t there when you went to bed? That happened last weekend to a prison inmate in Pakistan, who awoke with, how to put this delicately, an entire lightbulb in his anus. Imagine his...

And finally, a Ruble for your thoughts…

" He’s back again. This week, Chad Ruble, our roving Oddly Enough television reporter, wraps up the weirdest video of the week, offering the naked cellophane artists, almost-naked butlers, baby pumas and the python kid. Where else are you going to find a freak show...

Cleveland police find skeleton in bed

"AP - Officers who went to a home to serve a search warrant found a skeleton in the bed where an 80-year-old woman said her mother was sleeping."

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All You Need Is Love

"All You Need Is Love. Sometimes, love is all you need. Or maybe aerosolized MDMA [via longbough]"

And the weiner is….

"Dear Blog Guy, Rumors are swirling about an incredibly long sausage somewhere in South America. Would you know anything about that? Sausage Lover Well, Sausage Lover, normally I would consider this video clip too lame to use in a sophisticated blog, but since there seem to...

It’s a bird? It’s a plane? It’s not much of either, really…

" Czech it out… If you just can’t get enough of those scenes of folks trying to fly odd contraptions but flopping into the water instead, welcome to the Czech Republic. One homemade plane after another rediscovers gravity and that’s about all. And the...

Unveiling the veil…

"Quick quiz: This creation, presented yesterday at Milan Fashion Week, is aimed at: a. Beekeepers with a real sense of style b. Guys in the federal witness protection program c. Trendy folks with an unreasonable fear of malaria d. Nobody you will ever know or even see in your...

Halt, or I’ll shoot you with my pawn shop ticket!

"Okay, you’re a police officer in an area where you’re fighting not only criminals, but serious Muslim and communist insurgencies, as well. Faced with untold dangers every day, you think about how crucial your trusty gun is, as you gaze at it through a pawn shop...

Man Robbed By Teen Girls On MySpace

""[One of the girls] took [a] gun out and put it to my head and told me to empty my pockets.""

Pensioner arrested for keeping neighbours football

"I was shocked to read that a pensioner who, after months of balls coming over the fence and happily returning them, was arrested because he finally made a stand after one of the balls cracked his greenhouse. The father of the boys kicking the ball- a policeman."

A giant girl

"How about a 35 foot tall girl, out for a walk with a few of her friends? This one definitely is walking in the uncanny valley as far as I'm concerned. Is this the record for "world's largest marionette"?"