I would freak out if I saw a clown walking the streets or stalking people. No wonder the people of Staten Island are feeling nervous, they never know what this clowns intention are or where its going to turn up next. The clown, whoever it is, never says anything and just stands there with balloons.
There has also been an incident in New York. The bald clown — which resembles the creature Pennywise from Stephen King’s It, wears a yellow suit with a puffy collar and red shoes and clutches yellow and green balloons.
Could this be a new craze taking off? If it is, I don’t want ANY part of it!
When a US marksman was doing some target practice in the forest, he failed to consider his own safety, let alone that of others that were around him.
He attached his mark to a slim birch tree. Over a dozen shots later his idea of fun quickly backfired on him. The tree, shot through with bullets, gives way and comes crashing down on both the marksman and the cameraman with a hilarious impact.
The tree certainly takes its revenge!
A marksman in the US got an unexpected surprise [via]
Last weekend I saw something at Larry’s Pistol & Pawn Shop that sparked my interest. The occasion was our 15th anniversary and I was looking for a little something extra for my wife, Julie. What I came across was a 100,000-volt, pocket/purse-sized taser. The effects of the taser were supposed to be short lived, with no long-term adverse affect on your assailant, allowing her adequate time to retreat to safety….??
WAY TOO COOL! Long story short, I bought the device and brought it home. I loaded two AAA batteries in the darn thing and pushed the button. Nothing! I was disappointed. I learned, however, that if I pushed the button AND pressed it against a metal surface at the same time; I’d get the blue arc of electricity darting back and forth between the prongs. AWESOME!!!
Unfortunately, I have yet to explain to Julie what that burn spot is on the face of her microwave.
Okay, so I was home alone with this new toy, thinking to myself that it couldn’t be all that bad with only two triple-A batteries, right?
There I sat in my recliner, my cat, Gracie, looking on intently (trusting little soul) while I was reading the directions and thinking that I really needed to try this thing out on a flesh & blood moving target. I must admit I thought about zapping Gracie (for a fraction of a second) and thought better of it. She is such a sweet cat. But, if I was going to give this thing to my wife to protect herself against a mugger, I did want some assurance that it would work as advertised. Am I wrong?
So, there I sat in a pair of shorts and a tank top with my reading glasses perched delicately on the bridge of my nose, directions in one hand, and taser in another. The directions said that a one-second burst would shock and disorient your assailant; a two-second burst was supposed to cause muscle spasms and a major loss of bodily control; a three-second burst would purportedly make your assailant flop on the ground like a fish out of water.
Any burst longer than three seconds would be wasting the batteries. All the while I’m looking at this little device measuring about 5′ long, less than 3/4 inch in circumference; pretty cute really and (loaded with two itsy, bitsy triple-A batteries) thinking to myself, ‘no possible way!’
What happened next is almost beyond description, but I’ll do my best…?
I’m sitting there alone, Gracie looking on with her head cocked to one side as to say, ‘don’t do it, dipshit,’ reasoning that a one second burst from such a tiny little ole thing couldn’t hurt all that bad. I decided to give myself a one second burst just for heck of it. I touched the prongs to my naked thigh, pushed the button, and . . .HOLY MOTHER OF GOD . . . WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION . . . WHAT THE HELL!!! I’m pretty sure Jessie Ventura ran in through he side door, picked me up in the recliner, then body slammed us both on the carpet, over and over and over again. I vaguely recall waking up on my side in the fetal position, with tears in my eyes, body soaking wet, both nipples on fire, testicles no where to be found, with my left arm tucked under my body in the oddest position, and tingling in my legs?
The cat was making meowing sounds I had never heard before, clinging to a picture frame hanging above the fireplace, obviously in an attempt to avoid getting slammed by my body flopping all over the living room.
Note: If you ever feel compelled to ‘mug’ yourself with a taser, one note of caution: there is no such thing as a one second burst when you zap yourself! You will not let go of that thing until it is dislodged from your hand by a violent thrashing about on the floor. A three second burst would be considered conservative?
SON-OF-A-BITCH, THAT HURT LIKE HELL!!!
A minute or so later (I can’t be sure, as time was a relative thing at that point), I collected my wits (what little I had left), sat up and surveyed the landscape. My bent reading glasses were on the mantel of the fireplace. The recliner was upside down and about 8 feet or so from where it originally was. My triceps, right thigh and both nipples were still twitching. My face felt like it had been shot up with Novocain, and my bottom lip weighed 88 lbs. I had no control over the drooling. Apparently I shit myself, but was too numb to know for sure and my sense of smell was gone. I saw a faint smoke cloud above my head which I believe came from my hair. I’m still looking for my nuts and I’m offering a significant reward for their safe return!!
P. S. My wife loved the gift, and now regularly threatens me with it!
Stockholm mother Signe Bengtsson first became aware of the beast lurking in her home when the family’s pet cat Enok refused to enter their kitchen.
A few days later she went to put the rubbish out and said “It was right there in our rubbish bin, a mighty monster”. It was enormous, and I simply screamed.
Her husband Erik Korsas, who was away camping with one of their sons at the time, was sceptical that such a monstrous rat could really exist — until he laid eyes on it himself.
“By the time I got home, the rat was so domesticated that it just sat under the kitchen table,” he said.
The rat had chewed its way into the apartment through cement and wood floors, and caused a small flood in the family’s kitchen when it gnawed through the dishwasher’s water pipes.
Bengtsson and Korsas’s sons nicknamed the unwanted houseguest “Putin rat” and “viking rat”.
Pest controllers swooped in to catch the abomination, but the rat was so huge that even heavy-duty traps failed to immediately kill it.
Even when the rat was caught by the neck, it was still able to crawl behind the dishwasher — where it finally died.
“The kids were afraid it would come back to life as some sort of zombie rat. They didn’t want to touch it,” Korsas said.
“The pest controllers said they’d never seen such a big rat before,” said Bengtsson.
Personally I would have gone POSTAL!! let us know what you think.
