News

US Army Helicopter Accidentally Drops Hellfire Missile Over Homes

One hundred homes in Killeen, near Fort Hood, Texas, were evacuated last Tuesday night after a missile accidentally fell from an AH-64 Apache helicopter. The residents were able to return one hour later after the US Army found the projectile on the ground.


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Three-Storey Tall Crocodiles Once Swallowed Human Beings

I have an irrational fear — wait, scratch that — I have a completely rational fear of alligators and crocodiles. They’re scaly dinosaurs that chomp with the power of 2000 warlords and were put on this Earth to kill us. And they were even worse two million to four million years ago because they were three storeys tall.


News

Mysterious Rocks Catch Fire Inside Woman’s Pocket

This is weird: These rocks combusted spontaneously inside a woman’s pocket, seriously scorching her right leg and hands with third-degree burns. They were collected in a beach and look fairly normal. Nobody knows yet why they started to burn with such strong flames.


News

Apple Censors ‘Jailbreak’ In iTunes

Apple really doesn’t want you to jailbreak your iPhone. So much so that it has reportedly started filtering the term “jailbreak” in the US iTunes store. The search results still turn up, but most of them show up as “j*******k”.


May 17, 2012
Gadgets

This Is What Happens When Your Car GPS Blows Up

What happens when you leave your GPS in the car under a blazing sun and its batteries are not in the best of conditions? Well, it may explode and burn — like this one — melting your dashboard.


News

How A Single Bolt Sidelined A Submarine For Three Months

If you heard an ominous sound coming from your car’s engine, what would you do? Most people probably wouldn’t continue to gun the engine, trying different gears until the problem went away. But if you were the crew of the guided missile-equipped USS Georgia and you heard some clunking coming from the submarine’s engine, that’s exactly what you would do.


May 16, 2012
News

Thieves Steal Medical Equipment Loaded With Flesh-Eating Bacteria

Some criminal masterminds in Florida thought that stealing equipment from the Florida Hospital Center for Diagnostic Pathology was a brilliant idea. Now they have $US500,000 in medical machines — loaded with flesh-eating bacteria everywhere.


Entertainment

Is This The Most Elaborate Way To Hide A TV?

We understand that not every decor can accommodate a big flatscreen TV mounted to the wall. But the TV Tank, which hides your flatscreen behind a giant aquarium, is like trying to conceal an Austin Mini behind a Lamborghini. It’s still going to draw attention.


May 15, 2012
News

Man Killed With Poisonous Umbrella

This is really bad: a man hit with a poisonous umbrella in a street of Hannover, Germany, has died after a long struggle in the hospital. It sounds like a James Bond movie, except that it’s real and it sucks. This is what happened:


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The Weirdest Coffins You Can Actually Buy

When you die and you’re lowered into your grave, you might as well do it in style. If you were a brewer, why wouldn’t you be buried in a beer bottle? Crazy Coffins lets the deceased and their families do just that, with some of the wildest eternal resting places you’ve ever seen.