The Stool Bank That Pays $40 a Day for Your Shit
An independent non-profit stool bank called OpenBiome is willing to offer volunteers $40 per deposit [of] a sample of their poo. The stool samples will be used for fecal transplants, to fight the...
View ArticleGerman Town Offering the Unemployed Beer in Return for Street Cleaning
A special project in the town of Essen, Germany, is designed to engage alcoholics and drug addicts in cleaning up the city’s streets, giving them a chance to pick themselves up and rejoin society. The...
View ArticleThe Grave Robber and Historian Dug up Little Girls to Dress Them for Birthday...
Russian Anatoly Moskvin dug up 150 graves so he could dress the corpses of dozens of young girls for birthday parties. He then took them home and turned them into a grisly mummy collection, dressing...
View ArticleWoman Hospitalized to Remove Jammed Deer Tongue She Had Used To Um, You Know…
The Arkansas woman, who’s name has not been released, went to her gynecologist complaining that her discharge had a “very bad odor”. [T]he results of the pap smear were not human. During the exam, the...
View ArticleTown Bans Clowns After Multiple Assaults by…Clowns
A mayor in the [town of Vendargues in the] south of France has banned clown disguises for a month, starting on Halloween, after several violent incidents involving teenagers dressed as clowns. This...
View ArticleAustralian Climbs Atop Dead Whale Surrounded By Feeding Sharks
Harrison Williams, from Mindarie, near Perth in Western Australia, swam to the body of [a] deceased humpback whale and [sat] on it. Despite several tiger sharks and at least one white shark circling...
View ArticleThe Man Who Bought a House and Found a Hidden Vintage Car Graveyard
The owner of the cars was a car dealer in the 1970s and 1980s, and decided to save the more interesting cars that came through his doors. When the barn was full, he padlocked and soldered the doors...
View ArticleThe Bandit Balloonists of Brazil
Growing up in São Paulo in the 1990s, explosions were often my weekend alarm clock. The strange succession of bursts and explosions, we knew, could only mean one thing: balloons. The alarm clocks were...
View ArticleFour Acre Orb Weaver Spider Web
We were unprepared for the sheer scale of the spider population and the extraordinary masses of both three dimensional and sheet-like webbing that blanketed much of the facility’s cavernous interior....
View ArticleThe Death Metal Band Hatebeak With A Parrot As Lead Vocalist
Hatebeak was a death metal band, formed by Blake Harrison, Mark Sloan, and Waldo, a 21-year-old Congo African Grey Parrot. Their sound has been described as “a jackhammer being ground in a...
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