Aug. 13 : A Louisiana man called upon his Olympic spirit to make the best of flooded streets and heavy rain in the area. Jo Guidry, a triathlete from New Iberia, shared video of himself swimming laps in a knee-deep pool of water alongside a local road. “Watching the Olympics + living in South Louisiana,” […]
Aug. 13: A tech vlogger who specializes in creatively destroying smartphones celebrated his birthday by watching a woman dive into a giant cake shaped like an iPhone. Taras Maksimuk, aka TechRax, posted a video to YouTube showing the gigantic 500-pound iPhone cake created for his birthday. The iPhone cake, like the iPhones from TechRax’s videos, […]
Aug 13: The Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission trapped a wild black bear, which was spotted near a local elementary school. WFTV reports that residents including, Miguel Cisneros awoke to the sound of a trap shutting on the bear which had been spotted in the area earlier in the week. “We heard a loud noise, […]
Aug. 06: An Ohio university unveiled a new arrival on campus: a “Pizza ATM” that cooks and dispenses pizzas on demand. Xavier University in Cincinnati announced the Pizza ATM installed at Fenwick Hall allows students to use credit cards, debit cards or student IDs loaded with money to purchase pizzas that are then cooked on […]
Aug. 05: A group of scientists spotted a dolphin in a rare sighting in the Oresund strait between Denmark and Sweden. Oresundsakvariet shared video of the short-beaked common dolphin as it swam between a pair of boats in the strait. “It was insane, a huge experience. People had seen it on Wednesday so we went […]
Aug. 05: A Phoenix resident captured video of a 15-pound manhole cover “floating” in a dance-like rhythm due to underground air pressure from a storm. Jessie Pena posted a video to Facebook showing the manhole cover in the Coronado Historic District “floating” on the air pressure from a Tuesday evening storm. Commenters compared the manhole […]
Aug. 05: Police in Tennessee said two burglary suspects were arrested when they tried to sell stolen items at a pawn shop where the victim works. The Clarksville Police Department said in a Facebook post Jeremy Watts, 30, and Jessica Heady, 24, were arrested Tuesday when they took stolen items from a burglary to a […]
July 30: A charity in London posted a job listing in their window, but their choice to abbreviate the word “assistant” drew some unintended attention. The sign posted outside of a British Heart Foundation location in Bromley read “Ass manager needed in Sidcup,” Christopher Morfill highlighted in a Facebook post. The questionable abbreviation led several […]
July 29: A 13-year-old boy fishing with his dad on New Jersey’s Long Beach Island reeled in an estimated 250-pound shark with his rod. Gianni Mandile, 13, of Emerson, was fishing with his dad Sunday morning when he hooked what he immediately guessed to be a shark. “I started reeling it in and it didn’t […]
July 29: A British dad fined about $80 for taking his child on a vacation during the school term protested the fee by paying it entirely in pennies. The man had a friend film as he carried the bags of pennies — 1-pence and 2-pence pieces — into his local council office in Telford, England, […]