Canal Crashers, a car crash caused by the removal of underwear, competitions to remove underwear as fast as possible… yes, these are just a few of the craziest and most spectacular news stories of the week.
Canoe’d have thought it?
Most canoeists and kakayers find a nice, quiet, flat river on which to pursue their sport, but the stars of this week’s Red Bull Canal Crashers in Richmond, Virginia, in the USA, aren’t among them. Using their undeniable upper-body strength, kayakers, including Tao Berman, flipped, twisted and jumped their way over a huge ramp to the delight of the crowds and for the benefit of the judges at Brown Island’s annual Dominion Riverrock outdoor sports festival. If you can’t picture what an airborne kayak looks like, just click here to find out.
Barefaced cheek at Rally NZ
Rally drivers are used to wild distractions – Patrik Sandell had to cope with a bird strike in his Skoda Fabia on Rally New Zealand – but it's emerged that he wasn’t the only one who suffered problems down under. Rather than the standard dog in the road, a cow or even a donkey, the cause of driver Mark Tapper’s accident was an ass – belonging to a fan. The cheeky spectator flashed Tapper with both cheeks, which was enough to distract him and send him off at the next corner where he duly wrecked his Mitsubishi Evo. You can see the whole sorry incident below, but please note that you mustn’t be offended by bare bottoms – or more importantly the rude word beginning with ‘c’ your mum thinks you never use. That’s the one the furious Tapper utters while he and his co-driver lie upside down in the road…
Robbers escape a kicking
Last week we reported that an Australian bookseller dressed as Spider-Man had foiled a thief – this week it was a bunch of Aussie ninjas. Three Sydney hoodlums were busy violently dispossessing a German exchange student of his iPhone when they were set upon by the five ninjas from a neighbouring dojo, who barely had to think about inacting their Shito-ryu before the three robbers ran off empty-handed. Also foiled in the act this week were confectionery thieves in Minnesota, USA. The daring pair managed to avoid arousing suspicion in a shop by being aged only three years and one year old, and therefore impossible to suspect. The cops were called, and the brother and sister team caught and sentenced to no sweets for a week and an early night with no bedtime story (probably).
Mark & Andrea Busse
Breast of both worlds
If ever you wanted to run a competition guaranteed to be popular with men, this is it. In Gungzhou City, China, eight professional models lined up in a shopping centre while queues of desperate, sweating men fumbled with their bras to undo the eight clasps in the quickest time possible. The organisers employed a ‘belt and braces’ approach to encourage entrants (or should that be an ‘underwire and shoulder straps’ approach) by also offering a ‘booby prize’ of 1,000 yuan (US$146) to the winner – actually a woman, who managed all eight bras in just 21 seconds.
Towing eye
Single-handedly dragging something incredibly heavy by human power alone is usually enough to make your eyes pop out, but Chinese man Dong Changsheng took this concept a whole step further this week. The 50-year-old pulled a half-ton aircraft five metres in under a minute – with his eyelids. “"I have pulled a car with my eyelids before, but this was the first time with an aeroplane,” he commented, matter-of-factly. However, before you start thinking you can strap your ’lids to the nearest C130-H transport aircraft, Changsheng, who has been honing his unusual skill for four decades, added this note of caution: “I have built up the body strength to do this, but it would be very dangerous for ordinary people, so I don't want anyone to copy me.” OK, then, we won’t.
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