Would you like for beautiful, bikini-clad women to smile at you? Then have I got a product for you! The Hoverboard Cart is a seating attachment for a conventional hoverboard. Instead of trying and failing to maintain your balance on one of those flimsy things, you can lower your center of gravity and put it on 4 wheels.
As this demonstration video illustrates, a beautiful, bikini-clad smiling woman is capable of taking a hoverboard over rough terrain and even tow an equipment trailer. Just slip a beach chair or a cooler into the rack and start crusing.
If you've spent your life building the perfect monster truck, this is your moment to shine!
Heavy rains have left many neighborhoods in Texas flooded, stranding residents in their homes. Some might be able to get out on foot. For those in Millsap, Texas who couldn't, Cole Geeo rode to the rescue.
Geeo drove his Ford monster truck with an 8-foot rise through the water to pick up Deborah Wright out of her water-surrounded home. WFAA reports (auto-start):
"That's a redneck rescue I do believe," said Dina Young Gray, Wright's co-worker at Millsap ISD. She called around for help when Wright was in trouble.
"That’s just how Millsap is," she said. "We just look out for one another... If this didn’t work, we were going to get a boat."
So you've already had the rainbow grilled cheese sandwich for breakfast. What's for lunch? I suggest the rainbow pizza. Amy of the marvelous food blog Oh, Bite It made this pepperoni pizza with an extra thick layer of mozzarella on top.
As soon as she pulled it out of the oven, she dripped food coloring into the cheese and spread the colors through the cheese with a fork. It's like a food version of a sonic rainboom!
A man entered a cafe and shop in Champ-du-Boult, Normandy, France. He pulled out a gun and demanded money.
The owner was holding a baby at the time. She calmly walked past the robber, brushing him aside, and put down the baby. Then she returned with stern words for him, followed by fists. The Local quotes her:
"You're not in a bank here, it's stupid," she shouted. "Stop pointing that gun at me," she also yelled.
The robber fired his gun twice, but they were apparently blank rounds. He fled the scene on his scooter. Then he decided to come back 10 minutes later. Police were waiting and arrested him:
“I think he understood the gravity of the situation and thought he could get away with an apology,” said the owner of the bar.
Did you have an unsatisfactory customer service experience with the Geisinger Health System in Pennsylvania? Unlike a lot of hospitals, Geisinger is actively thinking about the patience experience as a customer one. It's created an app that lets customers voice their dissatisfaction and get refunds when they've met rude, careless, or otherwise inadequate hospital employees. The Washington Post reports:
One 49-year-old patient received a $210 refund in February after an appointment left her in tears. “Pt felt like they didn’t care and did not have her best interest at heart. Pt. stated she came to Geisinger b/c she trusted us, she has no trust now,” according to the financial authorization for the refund.
Karen Hull was upset, too, and not just over the chicken panini that took hours to be delivered after her successful surgery in January. Several weeks earlier, the Geisinger Medical Center finance department had blindsided the 46-year-old dental hygienist with a call for a “down payment” on her operation, for a herniated disc that had caused crippling pain.
“I remember thinking, it’s not like I’m going to skip out on my back surgery,” she said. She wound up paying $100 toward her $2,375 co-payment.
After she got home, she asked for a $150 refund — an amount that reflected her distress but didn’t make her look “hoggish.”
It's a novel approach to hospital care. But health care executive Ceci Connolly says that it shouldn't be:
“It is sad and ironic that a business that has decided to listen to its customers and be responsive and even occasionally refund some money is considered so out-of-the box,” Connolly noted.
It'll take a long time to fill up a bowl, but you can pop popcorn with just a hair straightener and patience.
BuzzFeed talked to the person who invented the process. He says, "I didn’t eat it so I don’t know if it tasted good, but it was insanely stiff." I suggest pre-buttering the hair straightener
Don't bring a knife to a bulldozer fight. That's not a problem for either of these gentlemen in Hebei, China. Construction workers in two rival companies competing for business settled their differences like men: they climbed into their bulldozers and used them as weapons.
The master craftsmen at ALTAR Furniture, which previosly made an R2-D2 coffee table pinball machine, built this coffee table body around an old Star Trek pinball machine dating back to 1991. The one-of-a-kind piece required 390 hours of work to make it into a Starfleet shuttlecraft, probably a Type 15 shuttlepod. The new LCARS display at the front includes truly otherworldy artifacts: 4 meteorites.
It's raining very heavily in Houston, Texas, today. Even though many schools and businesses have closed and electricity gone out in homes, some people are still venturing out.
Steve Champion, a reporter with KTRK News, was giving a live report this morning about a flooded road when one man drove his car straight into deep water. It bobbed away with the current and began to sink. The confused driver was unsure of what to do. In this video, Champion urges him to abandon the car and swim to safety. Champion wades out into the water to help pull him to drier land.
It's a good thing that the driver got out of the car. By the end of the video, the car is completely submerged.
Alexei Romanov, 15, was born without hands. So it should have been impossible for him to learn to play the piano, let alone become a concert-level pianist. But thanks to his own determination, as well as devoted teachers, Alexei can dazzle crowds with his performances. It's all the more amazing because he's been studying for only 2 years. UPI reports:
It all began when he listened to the works of Mozart, Vivaldi and other composers. Then he felt the urge to play music by himself.
At school, his music teacher began working with him. She helped him play the melodies from the most popular films – Twilight, Titanic. Later his courageous undertaking was supported not only by his teachers but also by his friends. [...]
It was after performing on a little stage with the La Primavera chamber orchestra in mid-February that he was invited to join a music school.
The chief conductor invited Romanov to participate in the "Guests from Tomorrow" TV project, in which he performed "River Flows in You," a composition written by South Korean pianist Lee Ru-ma for the Twilight soundtrack. After the performance, the young musician attracted lots of public and mass media attention.
A mysterious video from somewhere in China shows police attempting to shut down an illegal street vendor. The owner's grandson picks up a steel pipe and brandishes it against the cops, yelling "Don't touch my grandma! Go away, don't touch my grandma!" (auto-start video). Go get 'em, kid!
This is Alejandro "AJ" Fragoso, one of the greatest athletes in the world. He recently sat on a couch watching television for 94 straight hours, thus setting a Guinness World Record.
Fragoso and two other competitors sat down on a Friday to binge watch Bob's Burgers, Battlestar Galactica, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and The Twlight Zone. The other would-be champions eventually collapsed, but Fragoso pushed on, eventually surpassing the previous record of 92 hours. The Washington Post quotes Fragoso on the experience:
“Around the second day we started having minor hallucinations we started seeing writing on the screen that wasn’t there,” he told local TV station WPIX. “You forget there’s an outside world at that point you’re trapped in this tiny room.” […]
A doctor was present and conducted a physical check-up before and after the event. In the end, he found that Fragoso had an elevated heart rate and exhibited neurological side effects, including involuntary open-eyed “micronaps” and acute hallucinations.
The physician — Robert Glatter, a professor at the Northwell Hofstra School of Medicine — credited Fragoso’s Mediterranean diet and frequent standing and stretching with helping the 25-year-old fight fatigue and maintain his blood-sugar levels.
At the end of a long day, when you're finally ready to relax and enjoy a good cigar, sit back in El Purista. Rodrigo Gonzalez, an architect from Chile, and Alexander Sauer, a lawyer from Germany, made it to maximize the cigar-smoking experience. The arms are made with drawers for all of your cigar accessories, as well as a cupholder for your whisky and a custom ashtray shaped for a cigar.
