Dec. 31: A pair of especially dedicated surfers were filmed showing their devotion to the sport by braving sub-freezing temperatures to tackle the waves of Lake Michigan. The video, filmed earlier this month and posted to Facebook by Derek Utley, shows two surfers riding the waves at Bradford Beach in Milwaukee. The video shows one […]
Dec 24: More than 100 Australians participated in a series of tandem parachute jumps while dressed up as Santa Claus. The 150 Santas added the holiday twist to their Guinness World Record attempt for “Most tandem parachute jumps in eight hours.” The stunt was part of experience gift retailer RedBalloon Christmas marketing campaign to raise […]
Dec 24: NORAD is continuing its decades long tradition of allowing those eager for their Christmas gifts to track Santa’s gift-giving journey across the globe. The NORAD Santa tracker provides all the tools necessary to follow Santa as he delivers gifts to homes throughout the world including a map of journey and live view of […]
Dec 24: A Chinese fisherman proudly showed off his unique catch after reeling in a massive swamp eel measuring nearly 6 1/2 feet long. A video filmed Tuesday in Tantai, Shandong Province, shows the fisherman proudly holding his catch. The animal was identified as a swamp eel, a species native to Asia, and it measured […]
Dec 24: An Oregon man was filmed doing his part to keep Portland weird by dressing up as a Scottish Santa and playing flaming bagpipes while riding a unicycle. Brian Kidd, aka The Unipiper, posted a video to YouTube showing him ringing in the holiday season in a festively eccentric fashion. The video shows Kidd […]
Dec. 17: A Los Angeles news anchor participating in a segment about holiday gifts decided to test drive an electric scooter — to disastrous results. Lisa Breckenridge, an anchor on KTTV’s Good Day LA, was sitting on an electric scooter during the show’s holiday gift segment and decided to take it for a spin around […]
Dec. 17: A Texas YouTuber testing out a homemade guillotine on a can of spray paint recorded the moment the test went almost according to plan. The video, uploaded to YouTube by user Destruction Channel, featured a member of the channel’s team testing out the guillotine they built for their video experiments. The man makes […]
Dec. 17: A driver on a road in Pattaya, Thailand, recorded video of a bizarre modified car he compared to the post-apocalyptic vehicles from Mad Max. The video, recorded Monday, shows the ornate convertible with its top down on a road in Pattaya. The car is covered in strange decorations, and the driver eventually turns […]
Dec. 17: An Indiana woman paid tribute to late musician Prince and the coming Christmas holiday with a “Princemas tree” that took the Internet by storm. Lish Laynette posted photos to Facebook showing her Christmas tree, which she decided to turn into a “Princemas tree” in tribute to His Royal Badness, who was one of […]
Dec. 10: The New Zealand wing of KFC is offering fried chicken lovers the chance to win a strange piece of merchandise: a scented candle. The fast food eatery posted to Facebook showing a supposedly fried chicken-scented candle bearing the image of the chain’s Colonel Sanders logo. “To go in the draw to win one […]