andrew’s blog of amusing stuff

The students from Multimedia University in Cyberjaya did it. The world’s longest barg kebab that was 2.016km long. But can someone tell me, do you feel proud of this “world class” achievement? The kebab was made up from 3.5 tonnnes of chicken meat worth RM24,000. Think of what RM24,000 could do to help the poor [...]

Source: TheStar (link will not work after 7 days if I am not mistaken).
I’m not talking about the silliness of the train driver for driving the train off the track; I’m referring to the people who are standing below the dangling train.
Maybe you’ll think it isn’t at all silly, but if you read the full article, there’s an electricity substation [...]

 
A WOMAN has suffered severe burning to her anus after being struck by lightning which hit her in the mouth and passed right through her body. Natasha Timarovic, 27, was cleaning her teeth at in her home in the Croatian city of Zadar when lightning struck the building. She said: “I had just put my [...]

BOSTON (CNN) — When Rick Hoyt was 15, he communicated something to his father that changed both their lives. “Dad,” the mute quadriplegic wrote in his computer after his father pushed him in a wheelchair in a five-kilometer race, “I felt like I wasn’t handicapped.”
Rick, now 37, has had cerebral palsy since birth. But he [...]

Crocodile mauled a chainsaw…and what happened?

An American cook’s adventures in the kitchen have won the first literary prize for bloggers turned authors.

A researcher who investigated the mathematics of DNA entanglement has become the youngest student on record to graduate with a PhD from the University of Melbourne.

A seventh-grader tested ice and toilet water at South Florida fast-food restaurants. Seventy percent of the time, the toilet water was cleaner.