A junior police officer in Sussex, UK observed through a CCTV camera a man behaving strangely. He called a plain clothes officer working in the area and asked that he investigate. The cop did so for twenty minutes before another officer in the CCTV control room realized that the suspicious man in question was the cop himself:

But he failed to realise that it was actually the plain-clothed officer he was watching on the screen, according to details leaked to an industry magazine.

The operator directed the officer, who was on foot patrol, as he followed the "suspect" on camera last month, telling his colleague on the ground that he was "hot on his heels".

The officer spent around 20 minutes giving chase before a sergeant came into the CCTV control room, recognised the “suspect” and laughed hysterically at the mistake.

Link | Photo (unrelated) via Flickr user Smabs Sputzer

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The Peoria Carp Hunters began as ordinary aerial bowfishermen -- people who shoot arrows at fish jumping out of the water. But when they saw that their efforts were not reducing the numbers of Asian flying carp, an invasive species in the United States, the heroes took more extreme measures. Watch and wonder at the weapons and armor that they have devised to battle our piscine foes.

Link -via Say Uncle

If you limit yourself to one pot of coffee today, then you won't like Pietro Marmo's coffee pot. It works, but it'll make only ten drops of coffee at a time. The Italian goldsmith also made a cup that is conveniently sized to match it.

Link -via Gizmodo | Photo: Pietro Marmo

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Saimir Strati composes mosaics out of unusual substances, including toothpicks and nails. His message in this 270-square foot mosaic made of coffee beans is simple: "One world, one family, one coffee." The five human figures represent five continents (sorry, Australia and Antarctica) uniting together in a caffeinated peace.

-via The Presurfer

M2A: Fantastic Voyage is a project that tries to demonstrate the differences between processed foods and whole foods inside the human body. Stefani Bardin, a professor of design, and Braden Kuo, a gastroenterologist, sent a M2A* pill camera through two human subjects. One (left) ate ramen noodles, blue Gatorade, and gummi bears. The other (right) ate whole foods, including fresh made noodles. I choose to interpret Bardin's assessment as praise for industrially-manufactured ramen:

Notice how the shape of the ramen noodles is still apparent on the left and the handmade ramen noodles on the right are no longer recognizable as noodles? Even after two and a half hours? That's because top ramen is made to survive Armageddon. Our homemade ramen noodles are made to be eaten.

Link -via Geekosystem

*'M' refers to the camera's point of entry into the human body and 'A' to the point of exit. The designers clearly didn't want there to be any confusion about how to use it.

A good guitarist can set you on fire. So can a good spice. But when a guitar becomes unserviceable for music, it's time to find another use. That's what Asaf Tz’rtkof did, turning his into a spice rack.

Link (Google Translate) -via Make

Beth Jackson Klosterboer made little cheesecakes shaped and decorated like the classic Sweetheart candies. Each one is about two inches across. Klosterboer has demanding standards for cheesecake filling and used what she considers to be finest recipe. You can find it at the link.

Link -via Craft

Most people get stuck in only one elevator a day. The ambitious aim higher than that:

A firefighter went up in another elevator in an adjoining shaft, exited through the ceiling hatch to get to the other elevator's hatch to transfer the trapped man and bring him down.

But after the transfer was made, the second elevator stalled and wouldn't come down, McGregor said.

Firefighters considered breaking through a brick wall to get into the elevator through the shaft and using ropes to bring the trapped men out, but didn't have to after an Otis Elevator Co. engineer was able to reset the elevator switch from the roof, put it in "inspection mode" and operate it manually, McGregor said.

This is why we need slides, people. Slides.

Link -via Gizmodo | Photo (unrelated) via Flickr user ricardodiaz11

Find illumination in a good book. The craft studio Typewriter Boneyard turns old books into desk lamps, often using old fashioned light bulb designs.

Link -via My Modern Met | Previously: The Book Lamp

One morning, after she had two pear-sized tumors removed from her brain, Debbie Wagner decided to paint the sunrise. This became a daily ritual for her -- a celebration of the life that she still had. For seven years, that's what she's done almost every day. Wagner explains why:

“When I look at a sunrise, it represents a new beginning. I’m just so happy to be here another day and see my kids do different things and go to dinner with my husband. I suppose that’s the addiction of it — it puts me in a state of mind focused on gratitude.”

Seven years have many sunrises, so Wagner has produced more paintings than she can display. She sells them to people who want to mark a special day:

Increasingly, Wagner’s artwork is taking on personal significance for others as well. People moved by her story have started requesting sunrise paintings for their own milestones: the day of a wedding or a baby’s birth; the day a loved one came home safely from Iraq or Afghanistan; the day a person finally overpowered a stubborn addiction.

Link -via Oddity Central (where there's a video) | Photo: Debbie Wagner

In order to examine the way that the human brain evolved differently from that of other primates, scientists arranged for selected humans and monkeys to watch the Clint Eastwood movie The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly:

All the study participants watched 30 minutes of the Clint Eastwood spaghetti western, listening to the dialogue through headphones. The humans watched it once and the monkeys saw it six times, during which the participants’ eye movements were scanned and their neural activity monitored via functional magnetic resonance imaging.

The researchers found some similarities in brain activity locations among the species, but several differences, too. Monkey brain areas that fired up during movements on screen were quiescent in the humans, yet both species shared activity in other areas. This is a function of the species‘ separate evolutions — brain regions that may once have been very similar have adapted to focus on different tasks.

“The method may clarify whether specific functions are preserved in areas that anatomically correspond, are absent in one of the two species, or are shifted to other cortical locations,” Mantini and colleagues wrote. This, in turn, could shed light on how human cognitive function evolved, as compared to cognitive function in our closest cousins.

Which movie would you compel monkeys to watch?

Link | Image: United Artists

While it lacks the menacing message of The Prisoner poison glass (which is, after all, the effect we generally want when entertaining guests) Ange-line Tetrault's coffee cups have a certain charm. As you drink from one, you expose a bear, a fox or an owl.

Link | Designer's Website

Your bread might get soggy, but the view is worth it. At the Villa Escudero resort in the Philippines, you can dine right next to a waterfall. Don't bother wearing shoes because the water runs right through the dining and buffet area.

Link -via Bit Rebels | Photo: maryan54

For Super Bowl Sunday, Jaymee Sire made these jello shots by mixing vodka and fresh squeezed grapefruit juice. She then poured the mixture into emptied grapefruit rinds and quartered them after they congealed.

Link -via Tasteologie

Truly Custom Cakery based its cake on the Batmobile from the 1989 movie. Would the Tumbler Batmobile taste better? Or the 60s-era Batmobile? This calls for a comprehensive study.

Link -via That's Nerdalicious! | Bakery Website