Category: WTF
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Swimmer tries to steal yacht by towing it behind him
26-year-old Phillip Beach was arrested in Seabrook near Galveston, Texas, on Friday after the harbour master in the nearby shipyard alerted local police to what appeared to be a theft in progress. When police arrived, they saw Beach swimming in the channel tethered to a 44-foot sailboat named the Flying Pearl that he was attempted…
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Gee, rangers save seal pup almost strangled by littered g-string
Last week, authorities from the NZ Department of Conservation were called out to a stretch of coastline known as Lover’s Leap after receiving reports of an animal in distress. When rescue crews arrived, they found a young seal which had gotten its head dangerously entangled in the most unlikely of ocean debris: a G-string. Read…
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New world record for highest freefall lifeboat
Norwegian lifeboat and davit manufacturer Schat-Harding has set a new freefall lifeboat record with its new generation FF1200 boat. The boat was successfully dropped from a freefall height of 60 meters, unmanned but loaded with seven tonnes to simulate the full capacity of 70 100kg people (read: average size of sailors ;-), as part of…
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Human Slingshot Slip ‘N Slide looks extremely fun and dangerous
Behold a wild bunch using a bungee cord attached to a boat to pull them down a hill and over a ramp into a lake while riding an inner-tube, via Geekologie
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Deadspin launches Indiegogo fundraiser to buy alleged photo of Ryan Lochte’s penis
Jeez, read Deadspin here and see ‘project’ on Indiegogo ($126 raised as of now, the goal apparently $5,000 in 7 days), via SCAQ Blog Do you want to see Ryan Lochte’s alleged penis? Rather than bidding on some hypothetical market value of the photograph, let’s establish a real market value. Call it Cockstarter: Our offer…
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Behold the Old Spice muscle-powered one-man band
Can you do this ? :-) Old Spice Muscle Music from Terry Crews on Vimeo. Via Geeks Are Sexy
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Symmonds tries for the beer mile world record (and fails)
Hopefully not swimming related (now, that would be an *evil* record), but here is track runner Nick Symmonds trying to break the “beer mile” world record, in which a runner has to chug a beer at quarter-mile intervals. He finished in 5:19, 10 seconds short of the world record of 5:09 set by Canadian marathoner…
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Idaho woman hypothermic after “sleep swimming”
A 31-year-old woman who went missing in the early hours of yesterday morning was found on a river bank quarter of a mile away, soaking wet and suffering from hypothermia after apparently swimming there in her sleep. Read for instance Mail Online and The Olympian
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Warning: Don’t swim with contact lenses
Mail Online via Geeks are Sexy The amoeba that affected this girl is actually pretty rare, but has fast-acting and severe consequences. However, there is also a more common bacteria called “Psuedomonas bacteria†that also lives in water and can destroy your sight in 24-36 hours. Thinking “it’s so rare, it’s likely never going to…