Avis Blakeslee was tending her flower garden when she was attacked by a wild fox. Despite receiving seven leg and arm wounds, she clamped the fox’s mouth shut and held it down on the ground until help arrived. The animal was shot by Blakeslee’s teenage son.
After four days in hospital, Blakeslee was sent home ans […]
For hundreds of years, Bigfoot has eluded those trying to find him. But who would’ve known that conclusive proof of Bigfoot’s existence was just an Ebay account and a mouse click away?
So claims Ebay seller “tpeterson6969″, whose is offering his Sasquatch-finding expertise up for auction on the merchant website. Starting bid is $150,000 if you’re […]
That’s Kent Couch there in the picture, pretty typical 48-year-old gas station owner, relaxing in his pretty typical lawn chair, about to embark on an absolutely non-typical midlife crisis adventure.
Last week, Couch completed a 200-mile flight (you read right, flight. All those balloons weren’t for decorative purposes only) across the Oregon desert. He flew in […]
Australia’s Treasury Secretary, Ken Henry, is due for a break. But his choice of vacation spot has opposition politicians going batty… wom-batty.
Henry plans to spend five weeks deep in a Queensland forest, out of cell phone range, caring for a colony of hairy-nosed wombats. Hairy-nosed wombats, unlike common wombats, are an endangered species.
The opposition pols […]
Let’s face it. You NEVER hear about McDonald’s and weight loss together in the same sentence, unless it’s how impossible the latter is given the prevalence of the former.
But Chris Coleson of Quinton, Virginia, USA has bucked that trend. He claims to have lost 80 pounds over six months, simply by eating every meal at […]
The two kids in the picture above may not look like newborns–I’d think they look at least six months old–but twins Sean William Maynard and Abigail Rose Maynard were brought into this world just this week in North Carolina, USA.
Sean weighs 10 pounds, 14 ounces while Abigail Rose tips the scales at 12 pounds, 3 […]
If getting accidentally shot in the head with a nail gun ranks among your daytime nightmares, or is at least of those ideas that send shivers up your spine, here’s a reason to take heart: it’s actually quite painless.
Or at least so says George Chandler, a Shawnee from Kansas, USA. He and a buddy […]
Four people, ranging in ages from 19 to 25, were arrested in Cleveland for pointing a $500 green laser pointer at two planes and two choppers at the Cleveland Hopkins International Airport.
The laser temporarily blinded at least one of the pilots, and created disorienting patterns while bouncing around between the windows and control panels.
The youths […]
Do you like watermelon? Do you really like watermelon? The Japanese, they really like watermelon.
Take this 17-pound, black-skinned marvel of watermelon-ness. Last Friday, it fetched a record $6,100 at a market in Hokkaido. That comes out to around $360 a pound.
Why spend so much on the so-called “Densuke” watermelon? Because, says a spokesperson for the […]
Three-year-old Rhett Lamb from St. Petersburg, Florida has something called a “chiari malformation”, a rare protrusion of brain tissue in the spinal canal. Part of the skull is also smaller than usual. This combination puts pressure on his brain.
One of the effects of Rhett’s condition is that he’s stayed completely awake for all of his […]