We keep on truckin’, with this week’s maddest, most spectacular and plain weirdest stories.
Air Cargo with a difference
Trucks are very versatile – sometimes they’re carrying rubbish to a landfill site, sometimes they deliver rubbish to your house, if it’s an unwanted birthday present. You don’t often think of them as delivering three Russians the length of a South American country to victory in a rally that’s anything but rubbish, but that’s precisely what Vladimir Chagin and his Kamaz team’s trucks do in the Dakar Rally each year. This week, Chagin had an even more unusual race with enduro motorcyclist Alexey Kolesnikov, a Dakar Rally-winner himself, in Kolomna, near Moscow. Watch them tear up the purpose-built Russian track here, it really is a sight to behold!
Nobody puts Baby in the corner
This is freaky. A baby, filmed by his family in Brazil apparently dancing incredibly well for someone who isn’t yet old enough to control his own bodily functions (he’s wearing a nappy after all), is becoming a viral hit worldwide and is leading Michael Jackson fans everywhere (well, the ones who still haven’t accepted his death as a sad fact) to suggest that he’s the King of Pop reincarnate. The more sensible ones among us are asking, “Is it real?” Watch below and decide for yourself.
Save your complaints for someone else…
Some soccer World Cup news now… Most losers in this year’s competition are whinging about the flighty ball or the refereeing (plus ça change), but some Spanish fans and pundits have taken unsportingness in defeat a step further and blamed the girlfriend of goalkeeper Iker Casillas for their shock defeat to unfancied Switzerland, claiming she put him off. Spanish players’ partners are disallowed from accompanying them to South Africa, but Sara Carbonero happens to be a Telecinco reporter right on the spot for Spanish TV. Carbonero didn’t help matters by asking her beau how he’d managed to screw his team’s chances of making the last 16 in a post-match interview. Whoops. Meanwhile, at UK theme park Alton Towers, a select group of men have been given free rides this week – because their namesake, England ’keeper Rob Green, was largely blamed for a blunder that contributed to their failure to beat the USA. The other Robert Greens of the nation were presumably judged to have had a hard time from their mates… Any other Iker Casillases out there? Head to Staffordshire, UK…
Mexican waves goodbye
At least Green and Casillas didn’t run away from their troubles. That’s what one matador did in Mexico, quite literally. Christian Hernandez had only been in the ring in Mexico City seconds when he decided he’d had enough, fleeing the angry bull and vaulting a wall, all to a derisive volley of jeers from the paying public. To underline how seriously Mexicans still take bullfighting, Hernandez was actually arrested and fined afterwards for breach of contract. It turned out that another recent fight in which his leg was gored led to the matador’s sudden decision to dash into early retirement. “I didn't have the balls, this is not my thing,” he commented. Funny he didn’t realise earlier, really…
May I put down a deposit?
From bullshit to dogshit now. How often have you said, “Man, this shit’s expensive!” when shopping? Well, one man in the USA got to say it almost literally. We’d call him lucky, but seeing as his job of work involves scooping poop after people’s dogs in St Louis, Missouri, we can’t. Steve Wilson, who works for the brilliantly named ‘DoodyCalls’ company, found $58 in, er, ‘used’ notes (about €47) in a pile of dog poo he was cleaning up. The honest chap managed to clean the notes, presumably eaten by the dog involved, and return them to the owner. There’s nothing like the smell of money and… [that’s enough crap jokes about money and shit, now – Ed].
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