Category: Weird

Apparently it involves not scaring the band.  Seriously, go see the video.  Mexican gun laws are supposedly vastly superior to our own, but I don’t know of any wedding in the United States where the band would keep playing if gunplay breaks out on the dance floor.  Pretty clearly the band is used to this kind of thing.

I mean, literally.

Apparently yesterday was Squirrel Appreciation Day.  Bitter suggests that there’s no better way to appreciate squirrel than by frying it.

Cows and planes don’t normally mix.  Until Youtube brings us evidence that the rule is now officially out the window.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGYCnowBC2g[/youtube]

It’s extreme cow-tipping!  And to think, I only thought that was a sport where I’m from in rural Oklahoma.

Yes, we all know about England’s gun laws. Yes, we all know they are even cracking down on drinking. Yes, we all call them the nanny state and have for years.

But I bet you didn’t know it went this far*:

In England at least, you have limited choices; for a wedding to be legally binding it must be conducted in a licensed building. This effectively gives you three choices: a registry office, another licensed building for a civil wedding service or a religious building registered to carry out marriages (i.e. a church). Further restrictions relate to weddings taking place in churches as it must either be your parish church (effectively your local church) or a church with which you have a ’special connection’ and for which you must have a ’special license’. Unlike America, you cannot get married outside although it is possible to have a civil ceremony first and exchange vows again outside.

You can’t even get married outside? That’s nuts!

*Before you ask, I wasn’t researching locations for anything specific. It was just a click through kind of find and I just started reading.

Apparently it’s illegal to collect rain water in some western states without difficult to obtain water rights for doing so.  There’s a saying from the west that I believe goes something like “Out west, whiskey is for drinkin’ and water is for fightin’.”  Things like that don’t really change, though presumably we fight using lawyers these days rather than guns.

Yves Rossy has to either be the craziest guy in the world, or the coolest guy in the world.  Quite possibly I think both.  It takes some balls to jump out of a plane with a jet wing you built strapped to your back.  Apparently he used it to cross the English Channel Friday.  Here’s some video:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-oQ–U-WaQ[/youtube]

His jet pack has a bunch of these strapped to the underside.  The funny thing is they only cost a few thousand bucks.  Here’s his web site.  Awesome.

PETA is telling Ben and Jerry’s ice cream they need to start making their product out of human milk.

“PETA’s request comes in the wake of news reports that a Swiss restaurant owner will begin purchasing breast milk from nursing mothers and substituting breast milk for 75 percent of the cow’s milk in the food he serves,” the statement says.

PETA officials say a move to human breast milk would lessen the suffering of dairy cows and their babies on factory farms and benefit human health.

Eeew.

Now that it’s a confirmed hoax, it’s funny, I have to admire the hoaxsters a bit.  Taking advantage of people’s desire to believe — to just believe, man — is kind of a crappy thing to do except to people who deserve it.  This happened in Pennsylvania not too long ago, despite the fact that Pennsylvania Game Commisssion biologists said it was most definitely a mangy bear.  I can kind of understand why people want to believe in UFOs.  I can even grok the need to believe in highly unlikely government conspiracies.

But I can’t wrap my head around why people believe there just has to be a Bigfoot.  Certainly the idea that there are proto-humans living among the creatures in the wooded area behind the Wal-Mart is kind of cool, but this borders on religious for some people.   What’s the deal?