Category: WTF
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Man on bike jumps off Sunset Cliffs, nearly hits swimmer
A man caught the whole incident on video.
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Trump on Olympics: ‘Hard to sell tickets when you think you’re going to be nuked’
President Donald Trump on Saturday claimed South Korean President Moon Jae-in credited him with the success of the 2018 Winter Olympic Games and threw out a line about the North Korean nuclear threat. “President Moon of South Korea said without Donald Trump the Olympics would have been a total failure,” Trump said. “It’s true, true.…
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Beware New Zealand’s “Swim Reaper”
If you’re going for a swim in New Zealand’s oceans, watch out for the “Swim Reaper.”
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Amid complaints, Quebec town forbids nudity in pool locker rooms
A Montreal-area town has decided to forbid all nudity in the locker rooms of its municipal pools — a level of discretion that has one man wondering if it doesn’t go too far. Brossard advised residents in its newsletter this month it wouldn’t allow men or women to walk around naked in their respective locker…
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California’s ban on bikes in swimming pools – and other strange laws on the books
In California, bicycles are not allowed in swimming pools. In Delaware, it’s illegal to consume perfume. These are among the bizarre and obscure laws that have made their way into America’s state and local legislation and that photographer Olivia Locher chose to document in her latest collection of photographs, “I Fought the Law.†Locher began…
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Jilted girlfriend of prominent US banker dumps his Mercedes into swimming pool
Break-ups are ugly. But not every tale of spurn love ends with a Mercedes sitting at the bottom of a swimming pool. Russian-born model Kristina Kuchma, who was dumped by prominent banker Guy Gentile, 41, did just that, driving her ex-lover’s car into the pool in his backyard, reported the New York Post. The couple…
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Rohingya attempt to swim across river to Bangladesh
More Rohingya Muslims fleeing violence in Myanmar streamed toward the border on Thursday and Friday, despite government assurances that it was stopping the massive exodus of refugees to Bangladesh. A video shows dozens of Rohingya attempting to swim across the currents of a muddy river in northern Rakhine state of Myanmar, from where it is…
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Perth free-diver Julia Wheeler swims through three tonnes of rubbish in Bali
A Perth free-diver has described the ‘real life nightmare’ of swimming into approximately three tonnes of rubbish floating in the ocean. Julia Wheeler, 31, was horrified upon encountering the mass of human waste products including plastic bags, bottles, wrappers and containers that were trapping and suffocating marine life. The competitive freediver, who can reach 50m depths…