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Homemade Bungee Jumping Looks Like The Scariest Thing In The World

Bungee jumping is already the scariest thing in the world, so how does one make it EVEN SCARIER? By going the homemade, DIY route. These guys just tied a few knots, used a few carabiners and then just jumped off a freaking bridge. That’s it. Watch it, you’ll be stunned at how flimsy the entire set up looks.


You Won’t Believe How Much This USB Cable Costs

I’ve long been over the ridiculously overpriced-ness of idiotic Vertu phones. 300 grand for a dumbphone? Whatever, the stupid rich who spend that stupidly are beyond saving anyway. But Vertu has hit a new low (or high?) with this one: a $US190 Vertu USB cable.


Man Sets Neighbourhood Ablaze Trying To Turn Poo Into Gold

Amateur science is a wonderful thing, but it’s got to be kept in check, people. Building your own space balloon or cataloguing the local wildlife? Great! Taking a dump in your basement and trying to turn it into gold by heating it until it catches fire? Um.


Thief Hacked Bank Account To Steal One Penny To Buy Porn

Hacking someone’s bank account isn’t easy, even if they have a shitty password taped to the dashboard of their car or something. But the payoff’s totally worth it: With the loot, you can afford things like extravagant fetish porn that costs a penny.


HP Wants You To Print Magazines With Your Home Printer

Two wrongs don’t make a right. I think I learned that as a four-year-old. Apparently, HP and Condé Nast skipped out on that life lesson because they’re combining two dying things — print media and printers — to create the unholiest of unions: your HP printer at home will print out Condé Nast magazines for you to read.


Woman Tries To Rob Store With Toy Gun, Gets Arrested By Fake Cop

Wilnelia Rivera Caraballo, a 19-year-old girl, got a little tipsy and felt empowered to rob a store. So she armed herself with a toy “Uzi-type” gun, a clear plastic mask and went to work. Too bad there was a keen worker who outwitted the dimwitted half of Bonnie and Clyde.


SERIOUSLY HP MEG WHITMAN WHY WHY WHY

All Things D reports that apparently HP CEO Léo Apotheker will be ousted today, and former eBay CEO/failed gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman will take his place. Because when your house is on fire, your first call should be to an arsonist.


Idiot Casually Steals 1000 Litres Of Petrol

On the right, you’re looking at Yoenis Cristo Banos, who’s currently out on bail for a felony theft charge in Broward County, Florida. On the left? The silly fuel-sucking system that got him there.


Watch Kids Dodge Death While They Hang Off A Moving Train

Not satisfied with trying to outrun trains, looney kids are now latching onto the side of a MOVING train and playfully dodging things that they pass by. Right when you think they’ll smash into a pole, they manage to stay alive. It’s insane.


Watch A Weather Man Get Covered In What’s Probably Raw Sewage

Look, if you’re getting pelted in the face with bad-smelling, bad-tasting “organic material,” maybe it’s time to pack up and take it to the studio, yeah? Poor Tucker Barnes learned that the hard way in Ocean City, MD, where he got covered head-to-toe in sea foam probably caused by raw sewage backup from Hurricane Irene.


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