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Guatemala Sinkhole

Apparently, a tropical storm named Agatha swept by Guatemala City recently and helped to create this sinkhole…60 feet wide and 300 feet deep!

See more pics at National Geographic

Pickles More Popular Than Nickelback, Gives Birth to Pickleback

So, someone started the facebook page, “Can this pickle get more fans than Nickleback?”  And indeed, it has - gaining 1.5 million fans in just three weeks.  What do you do when you’ve got an internets phenom like this on your hands?

Apparently Wolverines Are Not Extinct in California

Thought to be extinct from California nearly 100 years ago as a result of the fur trade, (about the same time that our state animal, the Grizzly Bear, was hunted to extinction in the Golden State), this Wolverine was spotted in 2008 roaming around in Tahoe.  Though it has since been determined that it wasn’t a member of some clan of wolverines that has resided in the forest all this time, avoiding detection.  Rather, it comes from somewhere in Idaho - about 800 miles away from either the Sawtooth or Cascade ranges.  Methinks it didn’t travel all that way on its own four paws, but rather, hitched a ride on a semi or in the trunk of a kidnapper’s car who thought it was cute but soon discovered that it is in fact vicious.

Anyhoo, ‘buddy’ the Wolverine is exhibiting behaviors of looking for a mate…posing and marking territory in typical Wolverine mating behaviors.  Soooo, if there are any lonely lasses out there, looking to date a Gulo gulo, aka a wolverine, you know where to find a willing mate….after all, he is the largest member of the weasel family.

Lion Versus 42 Midgets…28 Dead, the others Mutiliated

First of all, note that there is such a thing as the Cambodian Midget Fighting League (aka the CMFL).

mmmkay.

Back in 2005, a fan of the CMFL was apparently very disappointed about the midgets’ recent performance and challenged Mr. Yang Sihamoni, the guy who runs the CMFL, that a single lion could beat his entire cadre of 42 smaller-sized fighters.

Not one to backdown from such a challenge, Mr Sihamoni  accepted.  As he likes to say, his midgets will “… take on anything; man, beast, or machine.”

So a sold-out fight was on!  And with the blessing of the Camboidan government which received 50% of the ticket sales.  A Panthera Leo, otherwise known as an African Lion, was brought into Kâmpóng Chhnãng where it all went down.

After just 12 minutes, 28 of the midgets were dead and the rest were horribly mutilated with “broken bones and lost limbs.”

[CORRECTION] SO it has been brought to my attention that the original news story that this post was based on is actually a hoax- .. an excellent example of good internet forgery made to look like the real-deal thing from BBC - Sooooo - hats off to the guy that came up with it!  it’s truly entertaining and was well executed.  And now, for something even better: jolly little folk!]

[original source: Deet]

[correcting source:  Stevun McCipro]

Beef on the Highway

At 2:30 this morning a truck hauling tomatoes stopped at the toll booth at the Massachusetts Turnpike.  A truck 2 spots back, which was carrying beef, abruptly slammed into the truck in front of it which was hauling styrofoam cups.  The result:  thousands of pounds of meat all over the highway.

The full story here.