Some smugglers dug tunnels (hard work!), others try to slip their contraband through customs. These enterprising smugglers in Hong Kong had a better idea: they used a zip line!Sixteen members of a smuggling gang in C...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/29/zip-line-smugglers/Most people simply ignore a sad traffic median full of weed, but not this guy: Scott took it on his own to create a "traffic median oasis" by secretly planting it. Turns out, he's not a lone - there's a growing...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/29/guerrilla-gardening/I've always been fascinated by the Mütter Museum in Philadelphia, thanks in large part to the plaster cast there of Chang and Eng, the reason the term "Siamese Twins" came about (is that a politically incorrect term now...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/29/seven-famous-sets-of-conjoined-twins/Behold the "Fullmoon" credenza by Sotirios Papadopoulos for ENNEZERO. The piece is painted with glow-in-the-dark paint called Ecolightinside, so the furniture gives off a soft glow in the dark: Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/29/fullmoon-by-sotirios-papadopoulos-furniture-with-lunar-glow/Cracked has a rundown of 5 scientists who performed experiments on themselves and and one facility that will make you cringe. Usually I recommend an article based on the subject matter (which is fascinating here), but th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/29/the-6-most-badass-stunts-ever-pulled-in-the-name-of-science/A fish over eight feet long is thought to be the largest line-caught halibut ever! Fisherman Soren Bec landed the fish off the coast of Norway after a “titanic struggle.” The trophy measure 8’ 1” and weighs 31 st...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/29/just-for-the-halibut/Balloon twister Addi Somekh gives a demonstration on making a Bass Instrument with balloons. The instrument is based on the balloon resonator originally concieved by Canadian twister Sean Rooney. Link: YouTube B...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/29/bass-instrument-made-with-balloons/Today's collaboration with What is it? blog brings us this strange device: what is it for?Place your guess in the comment section - no prize this week, you're playing for bragging rights and fun only. For more clues, che...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/29/what-is-it-game-64/I still remember losing my grip on a balloon and watching it fly away when I was a small kid, so I can totally sympathize with Michel Fournier. See, the French daredevil wanted to set the world record for free falling fr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/29/world-record-attempt-thwarted-because-the-balloon-flew-away/58-year-old Miss Ruth is tailor to one of the world's most hateful (and hated) group, the Ku Klux Klan:Coming from five generations of Ku Klux Klan members, 58-year-old "Ms. Ruth" sews hoods and robes for K...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/29/aryan-outfitters-old-lady-is-tailor-to-the-kkk/Handsome Dan is the bulldog mascot of Yale's football team.Princeton had a tiger as a mascot and Harvard had the "Orange Man," a stand-in for Puritan John Harvard. So, in 1889, Yale undergraduate student Andrew...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/29/trivia-yales-mascot-handsome-dan-is-one-ugly-dog/I'm loving these ads for Evil Dead: The Musical, which use iconic images from other famous musicals ... but with a zombie twist! The tagline "It's like the musicals you love, only evil" is golden!Via Ads of the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/29/drop-dead-brilliant-ads-for-evil-dead-the-musical/In video games, final bosses get all the glory. I mean you probably remember Bowser and Mother Brain ... but what about those mini bosses, "the assistant managers of evil"?Crave Online has a neat run down of 10...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/29/10-most-memorable-nes-minibosses/You're looking at an impulse generator at the National Grid High Voltage Laboratory at the University of Manchester. No, it's not a part of a Star Trek spaceship, but it does something pretty cool: it lets researchers st...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/29/impulse-generator-creates-indoor-lightning/Here's the story, from a Sun-Sentinel article in 2005 ... it's just like what it said on the headline:A man reported missing from a Florida hospital was found in North Carolina dressed like a doctor and driving a sto...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/29/missing-man-found-dressed-like-doctor-with-dead-dear-in-stolen-ambulance/"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. . .Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. . . Life is either a dari...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/29/quote-helen-keller-on-security/Sometimes, especially when it comes to stories out of Japan, the blogger of "neat" things must keep it in his pants lest the sheer goofiness of the story push him over the edge. This may in fact be one of those storie...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/28/kooky-japan-story-of-the-day-the-cat-that-saved-a-railway-station/They came, they saw, they were pretty cool, all things considered. An Asian act called "Signature" made a splash on the UK's performing talent cousin of American-idol show Britain's Got Talent. Signature really broug...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/28/britains-got-talent-michael-jackson-meets-bhangra/Gabe Fidanque, owner of Wagon Wheel Liquors in Durango, Colorado, was tired of losing as much as $1000 a month to shoplifters, so he instituted his own punishment: he told those caught shoplifting to give him one of thei...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/28/storeowner-to-shoplifter-gimme-your-shoe-or-i-call-the-cops/The queue to enter the Hindu Temple is long, people from all over the world sometimes wait for hours to enter a shrine created by Mrs. Sushila Karia and her husband Dhirajlal.This may not be a strange sight for a temple...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/28/temple-in-spare-bedroom-attracts-50000-worshippers/Photo: hellolukira Continuing our strange bus shenanigans, here's what happened when a bus "swallowed a VW kombi ... Thanks Lukira! | One more photo of the Solstice Bus...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/28/bus-vw-kombi-this/This is weird, but in a sad way: a man grieving over the death of his girlfriend tried to kill himself by climbing into a morgue freezer to be with her! The 41-year-old man was discovered on Monday when workers detec...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/28/grieving-man-climbed-into-morgue-freezer-to-die-with-girlfriend/Alex posted earlier about Kobe Bryant speaking fluent Italian - very cool, indeed. His post linked to a video of Kobe jumping over a pool of snakes. I ran across the snake jump video itself on YouTube just now and fe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/28/the-kobe-bryant-snake-jump/In the comics, Wolverine painfully pops his claws out right through his skin, and when they retract, his skin heals up. There’s a group of frogs in Africa that do the same thing! The frogs defend themselves with s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/28/wolverine-frogs/(YouTube link) This video remix stars Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, and Leslie Caron dancing to Michael Jackson’s "Smooth Criminal". The dance sequences were taken from the 1953 film The Band Wagon and the 19...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/28/fred-astaire-in-smooth-criminal/Today’s Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss tests your food knowledge. In each question, you are given two items and you decide which has more calories. I only scored 40%, but every question I missed had an item I’m not...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/28/which-has-more-calories/While we are on the subject of funny-looking yellow busses, how about this Topsy-Turvy bus? Created by car artist Tom Kennedy, the bus toured the US last year to “dramatically depict America’s upside down budget pr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/28/bus-bus-this/14-year-old Sam Hawthorne was bitten by a shark in his sleep! He was sleepwalking one night and walked right into a trophy shark’s head that was hanging on his bedroom wall. His mother found him bleeding from a wound o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/28/shark-attack-in-bedroom/Working from home is not easy, but it’s easier when you have an office you can use just for work. If you have a shed or room to build one, it can become a home office away from the distractions of the house. Here are...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/28/urban-garden-shed-offices/Today's Neatorama and Hobotopia's Caption Monkey has a little twist: your task is to do your best to provide the funniest commentary on the recent toilet problem at the International Space Station.But first, the story. H...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/28/caption-monkey-31-bathroom-trouble-on-the-space-station/
