Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Watch world's first successful car backflip by French stunt driver
Watch world's first successful car backflip by French stunt driver If it looks like Chicherit was driving slow, it's because he was. He approached the 25-foot-high ramp at 37 miles per hour on Sunday, reported the Daily Mail.The 34-year-old flew 75 feet upward while performing the stunt in a Mini Countryman. The car company also posted a video of the backflip.The event took place at Tignes, a French ski resort located in the Alps. View "Watch world's first successful car backflip by French stunt driver" on Spundge
Monday, February 18, 2013
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Friday, February 15, 2013
Watch asteroid 2012 DA14 live as it does a fly-by of Earth
Watch asteroid 2012 DA14 live as it does a fly-by of Earth At noon EST, NASA will stream near real-time imagery of the asteroid's fly-by from feeds made available by astronomers in Australia and Europe. At 2 p.m., the stream will switch to a half-hour broadcast including commentary, real-time animation and live or near real-time views of the asteroid. The asteroid is projected to pass by the Earth at a distance of 17,150 miles, which is comparable to six times the distance between New York and Los Angeles. "The asteroid's path is ... View "Watch asteroid 2012 DA14 live as it does a fly-by of Earth" on Spundge
Amazing video of huge meteorite exploding over Russia, damaging buildings and injuring hundreds
Amazing video of huge meteor exploding over Russia, damaging buildings A huge meteor exploded over Russia Friday morning in a burst of light and thundering boom that blew out windows and damaged some buildings. Many Russians captured the event on camera.This dashcam footage shows the initial explosion in the skyIn this video, the incredible blast is heardMeteor explosion in numbersThe collapsed roof. (Oleg Kargapolov/Chelyabinsk.ru/AP Photo) More than 500 people were injured, at least 34 of them had to be hospitalized. Scientists estimated the meteor weighted about 10 tons. It ... View "Amazing video of huge meteor exploding over Russia, damaging buildings" on Spundge
Thursday, February 14, 2013
Jim Boeheim calls ESPN's Andy Katz an 'idiot' and 'disloyal person'
Jim Boeheim calls ESPN's Andy Katz an 'idiot' and 'disloyal person' Syracuse head coach Jim Boeheim opened his postgame press conference Wednesday night a peculiar way, calling out ESPN reporter Andy Katz.According to the New Haven Register, after the sixth-ranked Orange were upset by UConn, 66-58, Boeheim immediately lashed into Katz. Boeheim said to Katz that he would answer "anybody's question but yours, because you're an idiot, a really disloyal person. And a few other things I could add, but I'm not gonna go there."As noted by Deadspin, this isn't the ... View "Jim Boeheim calls ESPN's Andy Katz an 'idiot' and 'disloyal person'" on Spundge
WATCH LIVE: President Barack Obama sells preschool plan
President Barack Obama sells preschool plan: Watch live During his State of the Union address Tuesday, Obama said: "I propose working with states to make high-quality preschool available to every child in America." He singled out Georgia in his address, which made pre-K programs universal in 1995, reported Businessweek.The administration has since released the details of Obama's plan for early childhood education. View "President Barack Obama sells preschool plan: Watch live" on Spundge
Bizarre blotter: Topless protest leads legislators to define nipples as indecent and other unusual crimes
Bizarre blotter: Topless protest leads legislators to define nipples as indecent and other unusual crimes When indecent exposure just isn't enough: North Carolina law seeks to clarify the state of women's nipples(Evan Amos/Wikimedia Commons)It was a topless protest hosted in a park last summer that apparently prompted North Carolina legislator Rayne Brown to introduce a bill defining women's nipples as indecent, reports WRAL. An indecent exposure law is already in place, but because it doesn't specifically define private parts, there's some confusion going on. Brown's law would define "the nipple, or any portion of the ... View "Bizarre blotter: Topless protest leads legislators to define nipples as indecent and other unusual crimes" on Spundge
Cutest video ever: Kids answer questions about Valentine's Day
Cutest video ever: Kids answer questions about Valentine's Day Excerpts of the cutenessAnswering whether she has a Valentine, one girl says: "That's weird, I'm a kid." As for where one boy's parents go on a date, he says: "Costco." A girl answers, "Chick-fil-A." Describing love? "Warm and fuzzy," answers a boy. "It's red," says another child. A girl goes with "sparkly." The film is produced by Jennifer Brown of Lumineux, a group of independent filmmakers. It was produced for Small Fry, a children's lifestyle blog. View "Cutest video ever: Kids answer questions about Valentine's Day" on Spundge
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Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Zombie warning issued by hacked TV stations in New Mexico, Michigan and Montana
Zombie warning issued by hacked TV stations in New Mexico, Michigan and Montana Not a real zombie. (File/Brendon Thorne/Getty Images)The warning was the work of a hacker, but some people were concerned."The bodies of the dead are rising from their graves and attacking the living," said the alert. "Do not attempt to approach or apprehend these bodies as they are considered extremely dangerous."This is what it looked like on a television station in Montana:And here's what it looked like on a station in Michigan's Upper Peninsula:In Montana ... The alert was issued on ... View "Zombie warning issued by hacked TV stations in New Mexico, Michigan and Montana" on Spundge
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Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Live video: Reports: Police, Christopher Dorner in gun battle
Helicopter crash caught on camera by 'Top Gear' filming in Korea (WATCH)
Helicopter crash caught on camera by 'Top Gear' filming in Korea (WATCH) The television show "Top Gear" captured this footage of a helicopter crash while it was filming in Korea. The show's YouTube channel says no one was injured in the crash. "Top Gear," a BBC production, posted the footage of the helicopter crash on Sunday and included that: "This was an accident that was caught on camera during filming for Top Gear Korea. Thankfully no one was seriously injured." The challenge had Kim Jin Pyo in a Corvette ZR1 racing against ... View "Helicopter crash caught on camera by 'Top Gear' filming in Korea (WATCH)" on Spundge
Bizarre blotter: Shoe store staffer bites off ex-girlfriend's toe and other strange news
Bizarre blotter: Shoe store staffer bites off ex-girlfriend's toe and other strange news Shoe department staffer bites off tip of ex-girlfriend's big toe(Wikimedia Commons)A New Mexico man employed part-time in the shoe department of a store in Santa Fe is accused of breaking into his ex-girlfriend's house earlier this month and biting off the tip of her big toe. Daniel Anaya, 27, allegedly asked the woman first if he could smell her feet, but then threw her to the ground, stripped off her shoes and socks, and began biting. "The bite went through ... View "Bizarre blotter: Shoe store staffer bites off ex-girlfriend's toe and other strange news" on Spundge
Monday, February 11, 2013
Global reaction to Pope Benedict XVI's decision to resign
Friday, February 8, 2013
Blizzard weather map: Track the Nor'easter otherwise known as Nemo
Thursday, February 7, 2013
Live: John Brennan's Senate confirmation hearing for CIA director
Live: CIA director nominee John Brennan testifies before the Senate Before becoming President Barack Obama's chief terrorism advisor, John Brennan was a longtime CIA agent. While working at the White House, he's become the architect of the administration's drone strike program, working with others to identify targets, and also setting policy as to who is a legitimate target. As a result of his role and the White House decision to release a classified legal memo on the targeted killing of American terrorism suspects overseas, Brennan faces stiff questioning by the ... View "Live: CIA director nominee John Brennan testifies before the Senate" on Spundge
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
VIDEO: Bruce Willis says don't infringe on Second Amendment
Hitchhiker Kai saves people from attacker, gives amazing on-camera interview
Hitchhiker Kai uses hatchet to save world from attacker, gives an amazing interview A portion of that interview aired on the Fox affiliate KMPH in California. Here's the report: The full video of the interview, which includes a lot of profanity, has also been posted to YouTube.Basically, the story goes ... Kai, the interviewee, is a homeless hitchhiker who really likes surfing. Earlier this week, he hitched a ride with a guy —this guy has since been identified as 54-year-old Jett Simmons McBride — who allegedly "began spouting racist invective and claimed to ... View "Hitchhiker Kai uses hatchet to save world from attacker, gives an amazing interview" on Spundge
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Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Bizarre blotter: Teacher posts semi-nude pics, portable heater starts pot fire
Bizarre blotter: Teacher posts semi-nude pics, portable heater starts pot fire Fire safety tip: Don't use a portable heater to dry your potA firefighter responds to the scene. (Chico Enterprise Record)California residents possessing legal medical marijuana started a small fire in their home Saturday after trying to use a portable heater to dry out the pot. The heater overturned, causing some of the pot and nearby paper to catch fire. The fire had been put out by the residents when police arrived and no charges were filed. "A lack of common ... View "Bizarre blotter: Teacher posts semi-nude pics, portable heater starts pot fire" on Spundge
Monday, February 4, 2013
Live: Obama pushes gun control plan in Minnesota
Obama is scheduled to speak at 2:30 p.m. ET.
The AP reports: "The fate of his gun proposals on Capitol Hill uncertain, President Barack Obama is seeking to rally support from the public and law enforcement community for his calls to ban assault weapons and install universal background checks for gun buyers.
Obama will pitch his proposals to stem gun violence Monday in Minnesota, a Democratic-leaning state where officials have been studying ways to reduce gun-related attacks and accidents for several years. His visit to the Minneapolis Police Department’s Special Operations Center will mark the first time Obama has campaigned on his controversial proposals outside of Washington."
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