All Entries in the "Weird&Random" Category
Couple Busted For Post-Church Autoeroticism
A cop on a “routine traffic patrol” noticed “ a silhouette of what appeared to be a female’s head bouncing up and down in the front part of the driver’s seat.” After exiting his cruiser, the cop approached the vehicle for further inspection, according to a Gwinnett County Police Department report. As detailed by Officer Nermin Cultarevic, he spotted driver Jamel Grant, 26, “naked from the waist down to his knees and he had an erect penis.
Man Accused of Trying to Kill Coworker He Was Stalking by Spiking Her Heels with Acid
A woman has had the tips of five of her toes removed after police say a coworker who was stalking her slipped hydrofluoric acid into her shoes.
Adventurous Woman To Give Birth To … A Neanderthal Baby?
Pioneering Harvard geneticist George Church suggests that the day is coming when we’ll want to reverse-engineer the Neanderthal genome and pass the now-extinct creatures’ advantages to our own progeny. All that’s needed would be an “extremely adventurous female human” to serve as a surrogate mother.
Pizza Hut Dips Toe Into Perfume Market with ‘Eau de Pizza Hut’
Be careful what you wish for on the internet: Pizza Hut Canada has released a limited edition Pizza Hut perfume.
Pillow Talk: Introducing the Boyfriend Body Pillow
Michigan-based Deluxe Comfort is raising the bar again with the Boyfriend Body Pillow. Deluxe Comfort describes the object as “a soft body pillow that looks like the torso of a man with a comforting arm that cuddles and holds you throughout the night.
Brown Friday: Why do people poop in retail stores?
As a former employee of Gap, Inc. and Borders Books, this reporter can confirm that the phenomenon exists. With depressing frequency, often during the busiest and most hectic times of the year — Black Friday weekend and the weeks before Christmas — sales employees or managers will open a fitting room door, or brush aside a pile of clothes to find that some shopper, large or small, has defecated and left the results behind.
Chinese Tightrope Walkers Set Record
They completed the wire-walking 350m above the Dehang canyon, in China’s central Hunan Province, without any safety nets.
Giant Head Prop From Digital Underground Tour Stored In East Oakland Parking Garage
The head was featured in a 1993 music video by rapper Shock G’s platinum-selling group, Digital Underground, and went out with the group on tour. Now it collects dust and dirt from exhaust pipes.
Virgin Births Seen in Wild Vipers
But in zoos and aquariums, zoologists have begun to document the strange phenomenon of facultative parthenogenesis: females of species that usually reproduce sexually, delivering offspring without mating. Surprise pregnancies have been documented among birds, sharks, snakes and Komodo dragons (Varanus komodoensis), but until now, only in captivity.
Man Talks To 12-Year-Old Self, Existential Crisis Ensues
Jeremiah McDonald, at the wee age of 12, recorded half of a conversation and swore himself to deliver the other half in the future…
The Curious Sex Lives Of Animals (video)
In today’s video, I am pleased to present The Talk Nerdy Guide To Animal Sex!
Naked Mole Rat’s Long Lifespan May Hold Key To Human Longevity
Common rats live about three years on average. The naked mole rat typically lives 10 to 30 years. And unlike humans, the naked mole rat–a species native to East Africa–shows little of the slow decline in mental and physical health as the years pile up.
Salt from Human Tears Goes on Sale
The collection can be bought from Hoxton Street Monster Supplies and offers salt produced by humans while experiencing a variety of different emotions.
This Guy Gave Himself Implants for His iPod Nano
Some say fashion is pain, and in the case of Dave Hurban, it actually is.
What Is This Chupacabra-Demonoid Monster?
There’s a new monster on San Diego beaches, and he looks rough.
Boy Finds Grenade During Easter Egg Hunt In Britain
An army bomb squad rushed to an Easter egg hunt in England on Sunday.
An April Fools Joke That Sends A Message In Center City
An official texting lane is installed across the street from Philadelphia City Hall, along JFK Boulevard.
Would You Wipe With “Twitter” Toilet Paper?
Social Media has never been so disposable” reads the tagline for the new “Sh*tter” toilet paper.
Tot Who Ate 37 Magnets ‘Attracts’ Attention Again
Payton Bushnell, 3, made headlines recently after she ate 37 magnets and had to have emergency surgery.
World Sword Swallowers Day 2012: A Steel-Slurping Extravaganza
It may be hard to swallow, but sword swallowers do more than entertain people by sticking things down their throats.
