Don’t hire this clown if your children have coulrophobia (the irrational fear of clowns): Dominic Deville stalks young victims for a week, sending chilling texts, making prank phone calls and setting traps in letterboxes. He posts notes warning children they are being watched, telling them they will be attacked. But Deville is not an escaped […]
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In the Ukraine, they cut cars in half before they import them to get out of paying import duties. Once in the country they’re welded back together. Today I received some tax saving wisdom from a taxi driver in Ukraine. He told me that people who import cars to Ukraine sometimes cut the car in
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You can’t get a seat at a new restaurant in Sacramento, California unless you have roots and live in a pot. The Photosynthetic Restaurant serves filtered sunlight in various combinations to to plants. Wired has the story: “My recipes are all based on the scientific study of plant physiology, applied to the fine art of
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If you attach a handful of brooms to a rotating drum and then drag that behind the car, will the streets get cleaned? There’s a video here. Yes they will.
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Do you enjoy flavored water? I do. I carbonate water at home and add a drop of two of lemon or berry flavoring nearly every day. Would I flavor my water with meat? I’m not sure. Luckily, if I’m ever in the mood for some Texas BBQ in a bottle, MeatWater has me covered. You
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Here’s a weird dog food story out of the UK: A new ice cream truck will be the local dogs’ best friend. Called the the K99, the ice cream truck delivers gammon (a kind of bacon) and chicken ice cream, complete with a crunchy canine biscuit bone.
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JS Online: Though she probably wouldn’t mention this on her business card, Liz Perry is a chicken matchmaker. One of the few, if only, people performing the worthy service in southern Wisconsin, Perry helps unwanted chickens find new homes – homes where they will be egg-producing pets and not end up in a casserole dish.
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South Florida Sun-Sentinel: Giving new meaning to the phrase recycle, repurpose, reuse, a Seminole County plastic surgeon is opening a fat bank Friday so patients who have fat removed during liposuction can store it for future use. Cosmetic surgeons who perform fat-transfer procedures typically transfer the patient’s fat immediately after removing it through liposuction, often
I just stumbled on this 2006 patent from inventor Donald Scruggs for a “Easy inter burial container.” The name in no way describes what this really is: a coffin that doesn’t need a hole dug in advance, because the entire coffin can be drilled into the ground vertically. Here’s the description from the patent: A
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I don’t know if this is real or not, because no companies are mentioned by name: Luxury ocean liners in Russia are offering pirate hunting cruises aboard armed private yachts off the Somali coast. Wealthy punters pay £3,500 per day to patrol the most dangerous waters in the world hoping to be attacked by raiders.
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