It was an unlikely plan, but our hero had nothing to lose. If he didn't get out of the grocery store, he'd eventually end up eaten. He mentally prepared himself, then leapt for freedom.
Be sure to watch the entire video to see how his venture ended.
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The Presbyterian Church in America is a protestant denomination not to be confused with the Presbyterian Church USA. The church government has chosen a new logo, which makes Twitter user Shane Morris think of something else. Grace remains irresistible, as is Boba Fett still unstoppable.*
-via Home Geekonomics
*Theological jokes are hard to write, so cut me some slack.
Enjoy the soothing motion of a rocking chair, but the horizontality of a bed. This is Private Cloud, a unique piece of furniture designed by Manuel Kloker. It's 7 feet, 8 inches long and 6 feet wide. It costs $7,800 USD, but does not come with a beautiful woman included.
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(Photo: Gary Van Handley)
You may seen shoes tied together and hanging over steet lamps and poles in urban environments. But never like this! Pejac, a street artist from Spain, left 4 sculptures on London streets that look like hanging shoes, but they face the wrong way. He hopes to inspire child-like leaps of imagination. Street Art News quotes him:
You do not have to be an artist or a child to have a different view of reality. This work is for those who are looking to let their imagination drift away with gravity. Or possibly more for all those who have forgotten to do so.
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Jenga is a fun party game. But perhaps you'd like for it to be a bit more exciting. The guys at Vat19 found a great way to do exactly that. They got a set of giant Jenga blocks and set them on fire. Then they played the game.
This was challenging, as the pieces had to be handled quickly. They were, you know, on fire.
It's a thrilling game and the basic principle could be used elsewhere. I'd like to try Twister on fire and Candy Land on fire.
-via 22 Words
Roberta Mancina is a world record-holding skydiver, BASE jumper, and wingsuit pilot. In her spare time, she also works as a model and stuntwoman. She's pretty much amazing, so this is just another day at the office for her.
For a lark, Mancina decided to strap on a wingsuit and jump out of a helicopter directly over an active volcano in Chile. Villarrica has a lava lake that's clearly visible from the GoPro cameras that Mancina and her colleagues wore on their helmets.
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Malgorzata Chodakowska is a sculptor in Lodz, Poland. She makes enchantingly beautiful fountains shaped like human figures (content warning: artistic nudity). The flow of the water completes the images, making them look alive.
Instructables member Bart Goemaere is a man of genius. In the past, we examined his boomerang axe, which is a throwing axe that returns to you if your miss your target. Now he's back with an essential survival tool: the Bayonax.
Recently, there was heavy flooding where Goemaere lives in northern France. He had to drive home, but a tree had fallen across the road he had to travel on.
Goemaere had only his metalsmithing tools and survival knife with him. He didn't have a saw or axe. But he found a solution: Goemaere wrapped duct tape around his knife and a hammer, giving his knife greater leverage and weight in a swinging motion. 15 minutes later, he had cut up the tree and unblocked the road.
Now he's offering a more finished version of his improvised tool. For this Bayonax, Goemaere cut the head off a cheap carpenter's hammer, then secured a knife to it with twine. You can find complete instructions on how to build your own here.
(Photo: Trina Birrell)
This is Monty. He's a Scrub Python.
Monty lived on the roof of a house in Misson Beach, Queensland, Australia. For 15 years years, he had been a fairly quiet resident of that roof owned by Trina Hibberd. But early on Monday morning, he decided to pop in and visit his neighbor.
Hibberd's friend Julie Birrell was visiting. She had been asleep in bed when she noticed that there was a 16-foot long snake exploring the room. ABC News quotes Hibberd:
"We walked into the bedroom and it was hanging from the curtain drapes down to the bedside table — and that was only a third of him," he said.
"It was a good monster.
"We locked ourselves in the bedroom and grabbed him around the neck. He coiled around my arm but we managed to put him a container."
This is not the first time that Monty has had boundary issues. Hibberd first met him 15 years ago when he poked his head into her bathroom while she was taking a shower.
But Monty probably won't be a problem anymore. A snake catcher captured him and released him into a nearby water treatment plant.
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Enjoy the summer sun, but be sure to put a lot of sunblock on! Don't let your skin get too toasted. Instagram member konel_bread, who previously showed us surprise bread loaves, offers this cheeky piece of toast.
Dutch artist Theo Jansen is most famous for his Strandbeests--walking kinetic sculptures that look like alien machines. They inspired Blaine Elliot of Santa Barbara, California to build this bicycle which locomotes similarly. It's called the Walking Bike.
Elliott and his colleague JP built a 3d model to test the functionality of Jansen's leg linkages on the bike. Then, over 6 months, they assembled about 670 pieces into the finished machine. You see more photos and specs here.
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You wake up in the morning. The alarm clock has been buzzing for half an hour, but you still can't summon the will to turn it off, let alone get up.
Head on down to Burger King, the home of the Whopper and Mac n' Cheetos! When you've given up on, well, pretty much everything, then Burger King has the meal for you!
The Consumerist reports that the hamburger chain is preparing to release its newest simulated food product on June 27. Mac n' Cheetos consists of macaroni and cheese breaded with crumbled Cheetos, then deep fried. Each cartoon of 5 will cost $2.49.
-via First We Feast
Ali has cerebral palsy and so can't support his own bodyweight while going down a playground slide. So Goren Harari and his colleagues at the Holon Institute of Technology in Israel designed this seat that lets him safely use a slide.
You can find complete plans for it at Instructables. The body is made of polycarbonate sheets which is heated into shape. The backrest is angled at 70º. The seat is padded and comes with restraints to keep Ali in place. There's a handle on the back so that a caregiver can move Ali up and down the slide.
The circle of life is a beautiful thing.
This is Tim, a Stimson's Python that lives at the Alice Springs Reptile Centre in Northern Australia. Recently, Tim shed his skin. As he shucked it off, he slithered in a circle. He ended up entering the hole left by the end of his own skin, thus creating a continuous tunnel of skin.
Tim spent 3 hours on Wednesday doing laps through his old skin before exiting it. The Daily Mail quotes Rex Neindorf, the director of the facility:
After trying to exit from his bubble wrap-esque skin for the first time, Tim hit the side of another snake and was forced back in through the mouth of his already shed skin, where he continued to circle.
‘He did laps for about three hours,’ Mr Neindorf said.
Mr Neindorf has worked with snakes for over 30 years and said he had never seen anything like it.
Tim managed to break free from his sloughed skin after a ‘marathon shedding session’ and is back in his enclosure at the reptile centre.
-via The Soul Is Bone
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Scott Dunn was a senior at East Juniata High School in McAllisterville, Pennsylvania. On May 22, just before he was scheduled to graduate, he was in a car accident. He was in a coma for several days before waking on May 28. He had missed his chance to participate in the grand spectacle of graduation exercises, which meant a lot to him.
So the school recently held a second ceremony just for Scott. ABC 27 News reports:
“Couple days later, Mr. Fausey,” the school’s principal, Scott’s mom Karen said, “called us and said to us that everybody wanted to do something special for him.”
“There’s only one high school graduation that people get,” Benjamin Fausey said. “To me, this is the least that we can do.”
Tuesday, more than half of Dunn’s class (about 45 students) went back to school. During summer. After they graduated.
“It’s really nice to be able to celebrate him,” Ashlyn Guyer said.
The school went through the pomp and circumstance. Students donned their caps and gowns and sat in the front of the auditorium. Scott’s parents, Karen and Scott Sr., sat front and center. After brief speeches, Scott’s name was called. Only Scott’s name. He walked across the stage as the audience erupted.
A graduation for one.
-via Ace of Spades HQ
