March 18: A Texas woman said she was preparing to feed her cat in the early morning when she noticed an unwelcome prowler on her back porch: an 8-foot alligator. Heather Tejeda said it was just after 6 a.m. Thursday when she noticed the alligator right outside the back door of her family’s Richmond home. […]
March 18: Domino’s in New Zealand announced plans to introduce an autonomous pizza delivery robot, which would be the first of its kind. The pizza chain shared a video showing off the robot, known as the Domino’s Robotic Unit or DRU, via Twitter after teasing the project for several days. “Meet DRU – Our newest […]
March 18: A 10-foot alligator paid a visit to students at a private school in Lakeland on Thursday, before being wrangled by trappers. Stacey Lynn, a parent at Geneva Classical Academy in Lakeland, shared video of the capture and joked about the gator’s presence. “You might be from Florida if you have a gator (9ft […]
March 11: A college in Canada issued an apology after accidentally releasing the test results of more than 1,400 health students via email. Algonquin College in Ottawa sent the results of 1,411 prospective students’ AC-HPAT entry exams to 40 other students. The results were sent in a spreadsheet including other information such as names, email […]
March 11: A Norwegian daredevil set out to break an unusual world record when he took his snowmobile for a 131-mile trip on the surface of a river. A video posted to YouTube by Jan Helmer Olsen shows daredevil Morten Blien taking his Polaris RMK 800 snowmobile for a four hour drive last year on […]
March 11: A Virginia man unknowingly became the judge of a Chewbacca impersonator contest after his friends posted his phone number on Craigslist. Blake Webb’s friends posted his number to the online classified site and encouraged people to call Webb’s phone with their best Chewbacca impression in order to win a prize of $50. The […]
March 11: A man dressed as Marvel superhero Captain America was involved in a beauty store robbery in Texas along with a sidekick. Security camera photos shared by Plano police crime stoppers showed the two suspects and their vehicle at the scene of a robbery at an ULTA retail store. One man can be seen […]
March 04: A Canadian family’s travel plans were complicated for a second time this year as they discovered their 6-year-old son remained on the country’s no-fly list. Sulemaan Ahmed confirmed the incident after his wife tweeted that his son was flagged during online check in while the family attempted to book a flight from Toronto […]
March 04: A man testing out his GoPro camera at a New Zealand beach captured the moment a shark swam between him and his daughter. The video, posted to YouTube by Michael Homer, shows the man testing out his new GoPro camera with his daughter while swimming in the Bay of Plenty at Papamoa Beach. […]
March 04: A pair of Denver Zoo lion cubs are finding enrichment and strength training from an object they probably wouldn’t find in the wild — a giant steel ball. The Denver Zoo, which posted video of the cubs playing on YouTube, said the large steel ball suspended from the ceiling of Kalu and Kamara’s […]