A Funny Story

Cute Chihuahua doing Yoga with his Owner

2013-08-12T22:19:00.002-07:00

The Italian pooch, whose name is Pancho, smoothly transitions from sphinx pose to cobra, performing neck stretches with focus and concentration. And when instructed by his yoga teacher owner, Niccolo Bello , to 'widen your ears,' the Chihuahua follows instructions and does just that.

Yogi: This Chihuahua with an affinity for yoga has proven that downward-facing dog is no longer just for humans

Drive Thru Invisible Driver Prank

2013-01-09T23:02:00.000-08:00

Dressing in a simple 'car seat costume,' Rahat the Magician Prankster manages to convince staff at scores of restaurants the vehicle that just pulled up in front of their window is completely empty.
At the first port of call, the teenage attendant's jaw drops when she sees the ghostly car and she quickly goes to get her colleagues.

'There's no one in the car,' she exclaims as they all burst into laughter, doubling over. 'The car just pulled up,' she goes on.
Lots of 'Oh my God, Oh my God' ensues as the invisible driver drives along.
At the next window, shown in the smoothly edited clip, the young woman says hello and then 'what the heck is going on?!' as she sees the empty seat. She and her pals all laugh hysterically.

'Are you crying,' one of the girl's colleagues asks.
Then the prankster, still wearing his car seat costume, pulls away, leaving the women baffled.
'Am I trippin' son,' an assistant, with the man's just-ordered snack in hand, exclaims as the seemingly empty car pulls up at a McDonald's.

Funny Paintings on Thumb

2012-10-23T01:10:00.001-07:00

Ditology:::The 'Ditology' project aims to look at our sense of identity and how we use disguises - particularly when we leave a 'digital fingerprint' online.

The inventive Italian, from Bologna, has produced versions of everyone from Dalai Lama and Jesus to Colonel Gaddafi and Hitler. He works under the pseudonym Dito Von Tease, in reference to the burlesque dancer Dita and because 'il dito' means 'the finger'. It all started three years ago, when Von Tease, 33, was looking for an original avatar to use as his profile picture on Facebook.

Von Tease said he chose a finger as a disguise because he was not keen to reveal his identity.
He said: 'In Italian someone could say I wanted to "hide myself behind my finger [trans: nascondermi dietro un dito]" - it's a metaphor to indicate a not-very-effective hiding place.
'I used this metaphor to say we all try to hide ourselves behind an image of us we create. That's my finger, the changing masks everybody wears in playing life... especially famous people.'

Penguin With Messy Hair Worried His Mother

2012-09-05T01:09:00.000-07:00

Embarrassed mother penguin's desperate attempt to tidy up her chick's unruly hair
Most of the other young penguins had already grown a set of adult feathers but this late developer needed a helping hand. The little King Penguin - Aptenodytes Patagonicus in Latin - had already grown majestic black and white feathers on his wings and stomach. But instead of a golden crest on his head, sat a tuft of downy brown fluff. The picture was taken in South Georgia by Sjoerd van Berge Henegouwen, 45. Sjoerd, 45, a criminal defence lawyer from Maastricht in The Netherlands said: 'I kind of got the feeling that the parent penguin was worried about the chick being so late in the season with its moulting process. 'The moulting process happens to the adult birds as well as the young penguins, they either get new feathers or exchange their down for feathers. 'The penguin in the photo is halfway done with moulting its down, but he is rather late already.

Unkempt: The mother penguin on the remote island of South Georgia appears to be making a desperate attempt to smarten up her offspring's unruly hair

Shame-faced: The young penguin has sprouted glossy black and white feathers but kept his fluffy head covering later than his peers

Baby Playing Table Tennis

2012-02-06T21:34:00.000-08:00

NEW YORK Appearing in a video named 'Jamie playing multiball', wonderkid Jamie returns shot after shot while perched on the left hand side of the table.
He calmly swats the balls back at his dad and trainer, pausing only to regain his Zen-like composure.
On 44 seconds he displays a wholly unconventional backhand before gleefully launching into a series of powerful smashes aimed straight at his dad.
In fact so efficient is Jamie in his Forrest Gump-esque whiff waff skills that his dad has to refill the box of table tennis balls halfway through.

Bar Serves Drinks on Toy Train Set

2012-01-29T01:22:00.000-08:00

Prague : A Czech bar has replaced waiters and waitresses – with a model railway.
The Vytopna Restaurant in Prague has installed a huge £500,000 model railway. The 400 metres miniature railway runs around the restaurant, and through every table. The restaurant owners are passionate about traditional railways.
The railway tracks pass through tunnels, over drawbridges, they run through sculptured rock formations and woods, by ponds, and even pull into stations.
The train delivers drinks from the bar to customer's tables and has proved popular with punters. The empty glasses can be put onto the train again and they are taken back into the kitchen.
The 1,300ft rail system features tiny tunnels, towns and forests.

Cat vs. Alligator and she whisked him away...

2012-01-24T23:16:00.000-08:00

JAWS NO MATCH FOR THIS ANGRY KITTY

A face-off between a cat and an alligator is hardly a fight between equals. Only, in this incident at a national park in New Orleans, the alligator emerged the underdog. A YouTube video showed the beast innocently stepping out of the water for its meal of chicken, which this cat somehow took very personally. When the alligator exhibited its jaws to intimidate the cat, the bold feline unleashed a series of angry swipes at its snout while stupefied tourists looked on. The gator sheepishly admitted defeat and returned to the water.

Sh*t My Pets Ruined

2011-12-07T22:47:00.000-08:00

Sh*t My Pets Ruined Hilarious images of torn up letters, chewed up furniture, ransacked gardens and graffitied windows have been collected, mainly by dogs and cats while their owners' backs are turned and put together to form a website.
The website was set up after the success of the similar site S*** My Kids Ruined, which was put together by exasperated mother Julie Haas Brophy from New York, after her son spilled a tub of black paint all over her rug. In a similar vein, the pets' version pictures are submitted by frustrated owners who have discovered some beloved item or place ruined by their equally beloved pet.

Japanese Toilet-maker Invents Poop Powered Bike

2011-10-17T21:47:00.000-07:00

As part of their effort to increase awareness about environmental issues, Japanese toilet-maker Toto have created a motorcycle that runs on faeces. The vehicle, named Toilet Bike Neo, is a three-wheeled chopper-style that features a toilet for a seat.
Though the bike runs on poop, human excrement is not used, instead the vehicle uses biogas brewed and extracted from animal dung and household wastewater. It can achieve a maximum speed of 80kmph.
The project is part of larger initiative by Toto to reduce greenhouse-gas emmissions in it’s customers toilets by 50 per cent by the year 2017.
The poop bike has embarked on a 1,000 kilometres journey across Japan to spread awareness since October 6, which took off from their manufacturing plant at Kokura and will end in Tokyo.
Even though it is powered by waste the vehicle features a tiny talking latrine on the handlebars, a high-end sound system and a air-writing LED device that can leave trails of messages.
The Toilet Bike Neo, also comes with a giant roll of toilet paper mounted at the rear end and a special poop inspired helmet.
The project has also started a blog complete with pictures at Toilet Bike that tracks it’s progress while travelling across Japan. There are no immediate plans to mass produce the unique bike and the company made it clear that it is not involved with the motorbike or bio-gas production business.

Message in Bottle saved Cargo Ship Montecristo from Pirates

2011-10-13T00:35:00.000-07:00

Message in bottle saved cargo ship Montecristo from Pirates

LONDON British forces freed an Italian cargo ship hijacked by Somali pirates after retrieving a message in a bottle tossed by hostages from a porthole, it is now learnt. The message said the crew was safely sealed inside an armoured area.
All 23 crew, including 10 Indians, of the Montecristo were freed and the 11 pirates arrested. The crew locked themselves in an armoured area of the vessel when the pirates came aboard and continued to navigate the ship.
“The pirates cut off communication, but the crew tossed a bottle with a message out. At that point, other ships in the area were aware the Italian vessel had been boarded by pirates. But the message in the bottle gave an important signal the crew of the ship were out of harm’s way and that a rescue operation could be launched.
Rubber boats circled Montecristo while a helicopter hovered above. The pirates surrendered right away, some throwing their weapons in the sea.
The pirates attacked the ship on Monday off Somalia.

Hitman falls in love with target and fakes her murder with tomato sauce

2011-09-24T01:27:00.000-07:00

Hitman falls in love with target and fakes her murder with tomato sauce

BAHIA, BRAZIL A hired killer fell in love with his victim then faked her death with the help of some tomato ketchup.
Hitman Carlos Roberto de Jesus, from Brazil, was paid £345 to murder Iranildes Aguiar Araujo.
He was contracted by housewife Maria Nilza Simoes, who was convinced Iranildes was having an affair with her husband.
But when de Jesus saw his intended victim he fell head over heels in love with her and confessed the plot. The pair then conjured up a plan to fool his employer into believing he had carried out the hit. The new lovers bought two bottles of ketchup from a local supermarket.
De Jesus then got his supposed victim to rip her shirt and grip a machete under her armpit. He then taped her mouth up, tied her hands, smothered her with ketchup and got her to lie still on the floor as if she were dead. The ex-convict photographed Araujo and sent the picture to the 'cheated' wife saying he had killed her.
Araujo said: “I tore my shirt, put the knife by my side here, then he tied me up and smothered me with ketchup.”
But the ruse was discovered three days later when Simoes saw the hired assassin kissing the very woman he was meant to have bumped off.
She then went to the police to complain he had stolen 1000 Brazilian dollars from her. Detectives were amazed when de Jesus told the full story in a confession. The murder was supposed to take place last July in the small town of Pidonbacu, in the state of Bahia, in eastern Brazil. The three suspects were grilled by police chief Marconi Lima before being released on bail. The hitman and his “victim” faces extortion charges, and the woman who hired him faces charges of making threats to kill. Sheriff Lima said: "In eight years of policing 've never heard anything like it." While a local shopkeeper remarked: "Could Maria not see that the knife was in the woman's armpit?"