Bizarre

  We’ve all heard of mad scientists—but sometimes it’s not the scientist whose mad—but rather it’s the science itself that’s just plain weird…   WIRE IS THIS HAPPENING…. For almost two decades an Indonesian woman says she’s been afflicted by a bizarre condition—-metal wires are growing out of her body.   The 40-year-old kindergarten teacher has wires protruding from her chest and belly.     X-Rays indicate there are many more wires inside of her body.     As you can read here—when she... Read Full Story

The latest snooping device on the nation's roads aims to penalise lone drivers who abuse car-sharing lanes, and is part of a Government effort to combat congestion at busy times. New cameras have been unveiled in the UK, to try to enforce car-sharing lanes on roads. The new cameras send an infra-red beam through the windscreen, which apparently measure the amount of blood and water in the car, and therefore, how many people are in there. The idea is that it should identify people... Read Full Story

  We all make mistakes—but most of the time our mistakes aren’t posted on the Internet for the world to see. What follows are a few hands over the mouth—oh my goodness—oops moments that I’m sure the perpetrators wished hadn’t happened in front of a rolling video camera…   NO TANKS NECCISARY…. This young fellow apparently thought he was going to impress the world with his weight lifting abilities as he set his camera to record.. But it would appear his confidence wasn’t the only thing... Read Full Story

  Sometimes there are things that just don’t work—no matter how hard you try. Just ask those involved in these little enterprises…     IT’S A CRIME… Remember the days when mobsters were feared—and had scary nick-names like “The Undertaker,” or “The Widowmaker?..”   But these days—it seems even the mob has fallen on hard times–and those Cosa Nostra guys are not like the gangsters we watched on The Sopranos..   The cops report some members of the Boston-area mob are so hard up for cash... Read Full Story

Looks like the U.S. Navy SEALs just got a brand new tool for the War on Terror. The boys at NSWC Crane (Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane, Indiana) have apparently been busy little beavers over there. One of the projects they've been working on is this little .50 BMG badboy. It's called the AS50 Semi-Automatic Rifle, and it's the result of NSWC Crane's teaming with Accuracy International (AI). At approx. 27 pounds empty/dry weight (according to the AI representative... Read Full Story