Showing posts with label Unusual stories. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Unusual stories. Show all posts

Feb 13, 2011

Eeek! Rat delays flight from Seattle to Denver

An Alaska Airlines jet was grounded after a rat was spotted running around the cabin Friday morning.

The rodent was discovered running around Flight 676 from Sea-Tac to Denver just before takeoff.

The plane immediately returned to the gate and passengers were put on a different plane, which left about 90 minutes later.

The plane has been taken out of service until an exterminator can make sure it's clean of rodents.

All rats without tickets will be taken off the plane.

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Feb 12, 2011

Giant penny made from 84,000 pennies

A single mom in Michigan turned 84,000 pennies into a priceless work of art.

After going through a difficult period in which she was forced to pinch pennies, Wander Martich decided to create this massive 1-cent piece, which was recently acquired by Ripley's Believe It or Not.


The giant penny measures 8 feet in diameter and weighs approximately 1,200 pounds.

Weird swim gear at London's Tooting Bec lido

Swimming at the Cold Water Championships isn't easy -- no bull.

Competitors put on wacky costumes, like these horns, before swimming laps in the frigid waters at the Tooting Bec lido in South London, England.

Reports indicate that the water was about 37 degrees during this year's event

Feb 11, 2011

Air Show disaster

The pilot had no control over his aircraft at low level. It narrowly missed a crowd gathered for the air show before it slammed into four buildings.

One can only imagine the horror of the occupants inside the buildings.

For an amazing photo of the event click HERE.

Rolling tires in the snow

Firemen attend a cold-endurance training at the Changchun Culture Square in Changchun of Jilin Province, China.

Feb 10, 2011

Child labor

A seven-year-old girl holds her tools after finishing her work of breaking coal in a brick factory for the day on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan.

Feb 9, 2011

This is a drill - This is a drill

Indonesian flight attendants swim to safety during an aircraft emergency evacuation training in Jakarta.

Washington state man saving $1million in pennies

A man in Mount Vernon, Washington is trying to raise $1 million - in pennies - to help needy families in his town.

Rand O'Donnell has already raised more than $4,000 for the "Mountain of Hope" fund.

Mr. O'Donnell recently used a wheelbarrow to deposit 56,600 pennies - $566 - at the North Coast Credit Union. The load weighed more than 300 pounds.

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Feb 7, 2011

Riding the turnip wagon...

A Pakistani man sits on the back of a vehicle loaded with vegetables in Islamabad, Pakistan.

Feb 6, 2011

Global warming has become global weirding

From a report in the Boston Herald:

Meet the global weirdos. They’re the ones telling you that all the snow outside is proof that it’s getting warmer. Only, they don’t call it “warming” anymore.

No, that was back in the “Earth has a fever” days. Back when Al Gore was predicting that the ice caps were melting, the polar bears were drowning and Manhattan would sink beneath 20 feet of water “in the near future.”

Is the "near future" past? Has Manhattan sunk beneath 20 feet of water? Boy, these guys really are weird.

The report goes on:

But then something happened. Since 1998, temperatures have been relatively flat.

We’ve got more polar bears than ever, and Manhattan is buried under snow.

For a planet-roasting crisis that threatened the human race with extinction, there doesn’t seem to be much actual warming.

That's when the chant became “climate change.” The liberals formerly known as “warmists” began predicting that we would experience fundamental changes in our weather.

Scientists at the University of East Anglia — the Harvard of climate change — said snow would be “a very rare and exciting event.” Children wouldn’t know what it was.

We all know how that turned out. Europe has had three winters in a row of snow and cold temperatures.

If the cold and snow in winter prove global warming why doesn't the heat in summer prove global cooling? These people will never admit they are wrong. They are accustomed to saying anything they want knowing 80% of the media will either quote their reports as factual or ignore their reports - as the American media did when they said children in the UK would grow up never seeing snow.

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Feb 5, 2011

Cairo demonstrator with makeshift helmet

An Egyptian anti-government demonstrator protects his head with a kitchen pot

Cars stranded on Lake Shore Drive, Chicago

Thousands flock to rice paddy crop circle in Indonesia

People gather to see the 70-meter-wide crop circle that appeared over last week in a rice field in Sleman, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

Thousands of curious onlookers are flocked to central Indonesia to look at the facture which looks like an intricately designed flower following rumors it was formed by a UFO.

Feb 4, 2011

Masked model at Fashion Week

A model wears a creation by Alexandre Herchcovitch during the Sao Paulo Fashion Week in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Unusual style! Looks like the model is ready for "look like a bandit" day.

She would look right at home with the protesters on the streets of Cairo.

Cairo protesters - from camels to burka's


Feb 1, 2011

Hitching a ride

A lamb rides on the back of a motorcycle near Havana, Cuba.

Lake effect ice

There's lake-effect snow -- and now there's lake-effect ice.

A lighthouse in Cleveland has become encased in a thick layer of ice thanks to chilly temperatures and lake spray kicked up by a major storm on Lake Erie.

This photo shows the Cleveland Harbor West Pierhead Lighthouse almost entirely encased in ice.

Jan 29, 2011

Piano replaced by table for 2 on Biscayne Bay sandbar

Will the Biscayne Bay sandbar now be a magnet for pranksters?

A baby grand piano was hauled away from a sandbar in Biscayne Bay Thursday, but it didn't take long before something else took its place.


On Friday morning, a table for two with tablecloth, a bottle of wine, roses and a man dressed as a chef standing next to it has replaced the piano on the sandbar in Biscayne Bay.

It's not known who is behind the latest prank on the bay. By noon, the new arrangement was gone, and it was unclear how it was removed or where it went.

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California mayor wants to broadcast bird songs

R. Rex Parris the mayor of Lancaster, California has proposed the idea broadcasting bird sounds during his State of the City talk on Monday.

It may sound like a bird-brained idea, but the mayor of this Mojave Desert city wants to brighten the streets by broadcasting recorded bird songs.

The Antelope Valley Press says Parris wants to play the bird chatter from loudspeakers on Lancaster Boulevard. The mayor says there's science to show that listening to birdsong makes people happier.

Parris is known for his flamboyant ideas. Check this out:

He got a law passed giving the Southern California city the right to castrate pit bulls, ordered city officials to learn the Mandarin language in a bid to woo Chinese business, and riled some people by saying he was growing Lancaster into a Christian community.

We do like the bird song idea. Cirp, chirp.

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