Niagra County, N.Y. resident William Hall was struck by a massive lightning bolt when filling up his car at a local gas station. WIVB's Ellen Maxwell reports.
A man has saved his pet dog from a shark attack by jumping into the water and punching the fish in the neck.
Greg LeNoir and his rat terrier Jake were swimming at a Florida Keys marina when the attack happened.
Okay - so there is absolutely no news value to any of this. But then again not alot in here actually has real news value.
But someone sent me an email with these pictures inside, and well - it's worth a look.
Yesterday as 17-year-old Shaun Dykes prepared to jump from the top of a multi-storey carpark in Derby, northern England, spectators allegedly shouted to him: "How far can you bounce?",
Oh, this is just too creepy.
Sarah Palin has clearly added some sex appeal to the US Presidential race, but it wasn't obvious how much until a controversial YouTube video emerged featuring people who admitted they had masturbated to the Alaskan Governor. One woman even went so far as to say: “I am voting for Sarah Palin because she wants control of my vagina!”
Only in Russia.
Where a 70 year old man is Bungee Jumping, because he says it improves his sex life.
Guess it makes Peter hang Low...
From the Pages of Russia's Pravda Newspaper comes this.
Sex Tourism is now a two way street, yeah you know what I mean.
Switch Hitting in Tropical Locations - read more....
Bureaucrats in India are insisting that farmers faced with crop failure and massive debt have to seek government permission before they can commit suicide.
Claudia won rave reviews when she appeared as a BILD Girl - but after the sexy secretary complained in an interview that her breasts were too small, her boss stumped up €4,000 for a boob job.
POLICE have released shocking X-ray images of a 16-year-old with a knife lodged in his head after a stabbing in London to serve as a warning about the dangers of knife crime.
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For about 50 euros, you can stay in a former prison that has been converted into a hotel in the town of Kaiserslautern in southwestern Germany.
A wind turbine was taken over at the weekend for the British Open Base Jumping Championship.
Thirty of the world's best base jumpers competed in the final leg of the competition from the Ecotech Wind Turbine, at Swaffham in Norfolk.
Not content with using a self-heating bra to save the planet, those utter mentalists at Triumph have devised another 'sexy' solution to climate change: a solar powered 'eco bra' that stores up energy during the day.
Sam Roddick, founder of sex emporium Coco de Mer, talks about the ethos behind her business philosophy.
Located in London's Covent Garden, Coco de Mer brings an environmentally friendly ethos to the sex industry. The sensually designed emporium sources from local artists, fair trade projects and cottage industries.
Half-motorbike, half-bicycle - an Austrian inventor says his creation, the "ErockIT", is a cool electric vehicle.
"ErockIT" riders have to pedal to get the bike going, and the faster they pedal, the faster the motor goes.
The bike can reach speeds of up to 80 kilometres, or almost 50 miles, per hour and its inventor says it could revolutionise transport.
Yves Rossy makes first solo flight across the English Channel using a single, jet-propelled wing.
The daredevil pilot had been forced to abandon his attempt on Wednesday and Thursday due to poor weather.
Mark Workentine, the pilot in a speed boat that disintegrated at 180 miles per hour during a test run, escaped unharmed as seen in this incredible video.
2 videos, the crash and then the interview.
When this guy started this project there was no way for him to distribute it. He started before viral video. Before Internet video. Before digital cameras were widely available. Thankfully, modern technology has caught up allowing 17 years worth of pictures to become more than a really awesome flip book.
Dressed in a special birthday kimono and receiving a present of a giant tea cup engraved with his name and date of birth, the world’s oldest man turned 113 on Thursday and declared that he wanted to live for at least another five years.
Stinky CSI patrol, street luge, crying over cannoli, the whale whisperer, and an 80-year-old body builder.
A traditional Beijing rickshaw is given a makeover with the addition of the rear body of a Mini Cooper.
Named "the other rickshaw", the vehicle features four gold-plated dragons and other Chinese decorations.
This is just too strange.
But this guy has a cat that likes to swim, and loves to scuba dive.
This is for real
Only in Germany (cause it doesn't happen in my nieghborhood).
Seems a young couple may have had too many drinks, when they passed out on their front lawn.
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The Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department is used to dealing with calls about moose and deer, but inside the public safety building in St. Albans, a first: a gorilla.
A 22-year-old college grad looking to pay off her student loans will auction off her virginity at Nevada's infamous Moonlight Bunny Ranch, Us magazine reported.
The Sacramento State grad, who uses the pseudonym "Natalie Dylan," told "The Insider" she is "ready for the controversy."
A base jumper in Norway, well, took a wrong turn.
Wild Video as his parachute won't open.
A Jehovah's Witness who for decades refused all surgery on his horrific facial disfigurement has been given hope by a British doctor and new medical technology.
Unwilling to accept a blood transfusion, Jose Mestre has allowed the bloody tumour that first appeared on his lip in adolescence to obliterate almost all of his face.
Visitors have been flocking to a zoo in Japan to catch a glimpse of green polar bears.
The bears are drawing questions from puzzled visitors at the Higashiyama Zoo and Botanical Gardens in central Japan.
Two Serbian cooks have created one whopping hamburger. The giant meat patty weighed in at 94.2 pounds, and might snag a Guinness World Record.
MMMM - Rat.
Yes folks seems the down turn in the economy hasn't stopped other countries from digging into the finner things in the cupboard, like rat.
Pictures and video you won't believe.
Woman clains devine intervention.
Finds image of the Virgin Mary in the skin of a grape.
Where? well duh - Texas of course
Only the bear facts here.
But seems cops were beaten to the scene. They closed in to shut down a pot growing opertation in Utah. But evidence shows a bear beat them to it.
A kite surfer in Florida was picked up by Tropical Storm Fay's winds and thrown across the beach and into a nearby building. He was hospitalized and remains in critical condition.
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Some extreme examples of self-styled human freaks were the headliners at an opening of an exhibit at a London museum.
The Ripley's Believe It or Not show features a feline fella and a man who's gone under the surgeon's knife and tattooist's needle to transform himself into "Lizardman".
People from a village in India's eastern Jharkhand pierce their bodies in a bid to please the goddess 'Mansa'.
They believe that by piercing their bodies they will please their goddess who will protect them from snake bites.
The festival is called `Panchparagana' and is celebrated during the rainy season every year.
A new study suggests that genes determine men's ability to commit in a relationship, Dr. Debbye Turner Bell reports. Harry Smith speaks to psychologist Dr. Jennifer Hartstein about the study.
Hundreds of women - and a few men - turned up in heels and hot pants for a short but ungainly race in Australia.
More than 260 women dashed across the 80-metre distance, though some fell on the pavement and others ended up walking to the finish line.
A BABY boy born with two heads has died after his parents took him home because they could not afford his medical care.
The Bangladeshi boy, named Kiron, was born on Monday by caesarean section and died at home late yesterday after developing a fever and breathing difficulties, paediatrician KS Alam said.
Kiron had attracted such attention that 150,000 people gathered at the clinic where he was cared for after his birth in Keshobpur, 135km from the capital Dhaka.
The birth of a Giant Panda baby is captured on video in what is being celebrated as Japan's first successful birth by an artificially inseminated panda in 20 years.
Giant Panda Tan Tan was the star of Kobe's Oji Zoo on Tuesday (August 26) after giving birth to Japan's first baby panda in 20 years to be born as a result of artificial insemination.
The boy, named Kiron, was born by caesarean on Monday weighing 5.5kg in Keshobpur, 135km from Dhaka, gynaecologist Mohamad Abdul Bari said.
"He has one stomach and he is eating normally with his two mouths. He has one genital organ and a full set of limbs," he said.
"He was born from one embryo but there was a developmental anomaly."
Summoned by squeaky toys, feather dusters and usually civilized owners transformed into screaming, arm-waving maniacs, about 125 dachshunds left the starting line and sometimes headed in the right direction Sunday in the Wiener Dog Races at the Nevada State Fair.
Skinner, a 4-year-old "underdog" who lost in the early rounds last year, out-scrambled his short-legged challengers to become the 2008 "wiener."
It didn't want to come out of its shell at first.
So eighth-graders Katie Portolese and Maria Hite slowly peeled back a part of the egg shell that was chipping away to give the newborn turtle a fighting chance to come out.
"We could tell it was struggling," Maria said.
The annual Huamantla bull run claims more victims including a Red Cross paramedic gored in the head.
At least 19 people have been injured as 24 bulls rampaged through the streets packed with thousands of spectators but the casualty figures are down on the previous year.
Flip-flops decorated with miniature heads of U.S. Presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain have given summer fashion a political twist.
The quirky footwear is sold by 'HotFlops', based in Los Angeles. They are the brainchild of Linda Spann who, along with company CEO Sean Jackson, thought the American electorate would get a kick out of the colourful summer shoes.
A monkey evades dozens of net-wielding police officers and chasing press after sitting down on a sign board for more than two hours at a busy station in Tokyo, Japan.
The monkey was spotted at the automatic ticket gates at a train line in Shibuya Station in central Tokyo at about 0940am (0040 GMT).
A pair of wheels gives a paralysed tortoise a new lease of life.
The African Spurred Tortoise is paralysed in her two hind legs, but thanks to a pair of skates strapped to her, she leaves the other tortoises in the dust and has even started to mate.
Two people in a small sports plane are left hanging upside down for over two hours after crashing into a power line in southern Germany.
The German-registered plane was about to land at a small regional airport when the plane's wheel touched a 380,000 volt power line and got stuck.
Two Georgia hikers say they have recovered the corpse of a Sasquatch and shared evidence in a press conference Friday in California. The men who made this claim, Matthew Whitton and Rick Dyer, talk with MSNBC Countdown guest host Rachel Maddow about their discovery.
A couple of hunters in northern Georgia (the state, not the country) claim to have found a carcass of the legendary creature known as Bigfoot (or Sasquatch, if you prefer).
The two hunters teamed up with a fellow named Tom Biscardi, head of a group called Searching for Bigfoot; they plan to hold a press conference on Friday in Palo Alto, Calif., to show off DNA evidence and photos--but not the body itself. That's apparently being kept under wraps.
A three-winged goose that was found in Florida recently will have a better life thanks to some human intervention.
The domestic Egyptian goose was found on a golf course near Hollywood in June.
It's three wings made it impossible for the goose to fly, or even walk.
