My rule is to kill on sight any venomous snake if I can safely do so, but WildCare Bay Area in San Rafael, California takes a different approach. The staff met a rattlesnake that had become trapped in a plastic mesh. It was unable to free itself, so they restrained its head, then cut away the plastic net.
One of their more challenging tasks was to remove some of the plastic from the snake's mouth as it tried to bite them.
-via Huffington Post
(Photo: Foodspotting)
Redditor thr111 performed a great public service while he purchased lunch at a Burger King. Although he has deleted the text, much of it remains at Consumerist. He purchased every apple pie at the restaurant to punish a rude child who wanted one. Harken to his tale of justice:
“When behind me comes this woman yapping on her cellphone with a little monster of a child,” he writes. “This kid was out of control, screaming, punching his mother throwing around a gameboy whenever something didn’t go right in the game.”
He says the mom paid more attention to her phone than to her kid, who was screaming about how much he wanted an apple pie.
The customer says his already bad headache got worse and so he asked the mother nicely to quiet her kid down.
“Immediately she gets up in my face telling me I can’t tell her nothing about raising her child and to mind my own business,” recalls the customer, who says the mom rubbed it in by calling her kid “sweety” and assuring him that he’d get his pie.
By the time the customer got to the front of the line, he says he could only think about how the loudmouthed brat and his mom had spoiled this little trip to BK.
“I then decide to ruin their day,” explains the customer who ordered all 23 pies the store had in stock.
“I take my order and walk towards the exit,” he recounts. “Moments later I hear the woman yelling, ‘What do you mean you don’t have any pies left, who bought them all?’ I turn around and see the cashier pointing me out with the woman shooting me a death glare.”
As the father of two young children, I have great sympathy for the parents of children who misbehave in public. But parents must act to either change the behavior or remove the children. That's the only way you get pie.
-via Iowahawk
"Why settle for mediocrity, when you can Prancercise your way to ecstasy?" Once again, Joanna Rohrback uses rhyming couplets to make the case for her now-famous exercise program. It was an internet sensation in early summer. Even Thor got into it!
Rohrback's exercise program is inspired by the movement of horses. So to demonstrate its clear excellence as a fitness activity, she performed it with a partner in a field with horses. Now put on some tights and go find a horse farm. Or, if you live in an area without horses, try a public library. Then get Prancercising!
-via Nerdcore
Now it seems obvious: all pizzas should be cooked with a layer of chocolate chip cookie on top. But in the dark times that preceded Michael J. Hudson's discovery, we did not have such marvels.
It all began when the DiGiorno's brand began packaging its frozen pizzas with tubes of chocolate chip cookie dough. Like Bell with the telephone or the Wright brothers with the airplane, Hudson saw possibilities where others did not: the cookies and the pizza need not be baked separately.
Thank you, Mr. Hudson, our modern Prometheus. You have given humanity a great and delicious gift.
-via That's Nerdalicious!
The daughter of Aaron Engler found a new friend--her own reflection! Watch this cute little girl pop up and down, catching herself in the window.
-via Huffington Post
This is The Great Hare, a sculpture by Canadian artist Mary Catherine Newcomb. She made the 15-foot long structure from turf that she grew over shaped mounds of compost and soil. It was on public display in 2011 at the Cambridge Sculpture Garden for CAFKA, an art show in the Kitchener, Ontario area. She also made an 8-foot long indoor version in 2012.
Because of its construction, The Great Hare is, in a sense, a living object. In an interview, Newcomb described the creative process:
The process of making the Great Hare (my most recent piece) relates to the fibre arts in a specific way. The turf blanket is cut and sewn onto parts of a supporting frame so that it can grow into the supporting soil. As the grass grew, I would comb it and give the piece "haircuts".
-via Colossal
(Photo: AP)
Dorset is a small town in the middle of Minnesota. It has an informal, ceremonial government headed by a mayor, which is elected every year. When he was 3 years old, Bobby Tufts was elected to that position. The next year, he was re-elected. Bobby is a popular mayor, but he just lost his bid for a third term in that office.
Perhaps that's because in that town, you can literally buy votes. The election is actually a raffle. Each vote costs $1. The proceeds of the election fund a local festival.
Eric Mueller, a carpetbagger, won the election. He doesn't even live in Dorset, but in Mendota Heights. His family takes vacations in the area, so Mueller decided to run for mayor.
Bobby is taking the loss in stride. He had planned to run for President of the United States in 2048. He may still do so, but right now he's backing his 2-year old brother, James, for next mayoral race.
-via The Mary Sue
Murru Prison was a Soviet prison and forced labor camp on Lake Rummu in Estonia. The Soviet Union sent its enemies there to toil in the open-air quarry. But it is no longer an icon of tyranny. It's a pleasant beach and swimming hole where people while away their idle time. This footage shot by XL Studios shows happy people at play on the water and the ruins of the prison, which now serve as diving platforms.
The crystal blue waters are also a good place to go scuba diving. Much of the prison is now submerged in the water, giving divers plenty of places to explore
-via Nerdcore
(Photo: @nicolastaylor)
Yesterday, a man in Perth, Australia was boarding a train when he slipped and his leg became wedged between the train and the platform. He couldn't get out on his own. Other passengers tried to lift him up, but he was stuck.
So a crowd gathered around the train. On a signal, they all pushed the train until it tilted enough to free the man. David Hynes, a spokesman for the public transportation agency, described the incident to ABC News:
"We alerted the driver, made sure the train didn't move.
"Then our staff who were there at the time got the passengers, and there were lots of them, off the train, and organised them to sort of rock, tilt the train backwards away from the platform so they were able to get him out and rescue him."
The rescued man escaped the incident without any serious injuries--thanks to his new friends. You can watch the dramatic rescue in the video embedded below.
-via 22 Words
CORRECTION 8/11/14: I completely misread Schroeder's post. Lucas Danehl, an artist in Braunschweig, Germany, made this car. Schroeder just photographed it. My apologies to Mr. Danehl for misattributing his work.
Jacob Aaron Schroeder, an artist in Minneapolis, covered an old Volkswagen in popcorn and displayed it at the Braunschweig University of Art in Braunschweig, Germany. For Schroeder, food is not just sustenance, but a form that can be expressed with other materials, as you can see from his paintings designed to look like cakes.
-via Lustik
Last week, rain poured into the already-drenched Emmental region of Switzerland. The water flowed over the saturated ground into the Emme River, which ruptured in torrential floods. It gets this bad only once every 300 years.
You can get a sense of the force at work in this video, which shows a tiny stream suddenly erupting in waters so strong that they easily push huge rocks downstream.
Of course, the appropriate reaction to an event like this is to go surfing, which is precisely what these two men did in the raging waters.
-via The Presurfer
Lars, the Awkward Yeti, should count himself lucky. My brain would wait until the middle of the interview during a difficult question before reminding me of that incident.
Your brain has already demonstrated that it's trying to sabotage the job interview. Your best bet is to not use it at all tomorrow.
I like Amy Armstrong's novel hobo nickel design that mimics the famous movie poster for Jaws. The shark has already had a meal, but he's ready for more.
-via Hobo Nickel Art
This joyful fellow straddles Iron Hoof, a mechanical pony ride that supports up to 286 pounds of brony for a variable 3-speed ride. It plays music and operates on 220 volts. It's built over a welded steel frame and features a real saddle. Iron Hoof also has 2 coin slots, just like a real storefront kiddie ride.
DeviantART members Markus K., Saer Fallensun, Snow Chetah, and irgendeinwolf built this marvel for GalaCon 2014, a brony convention in Ludwigsburg, Germany this past weekend. It's currently for sale, so go get your wallets!
Every day, Tanaka Tatsuya uses everyday objects and miniatures to create dioramas. It’s a constant creative process that has obviously stimulated his imagination in excellent ways.
Since it is a daily activity, the artist refers to the project as the Miniature Calendar. You can see all of the photos in the series on his Facebook and Instagram pages.
