Category: WTF
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MP’s embarrassing slip-up at swimming launch
A South Australian MP made an embarrassing blunder at the launch of the Australian Swimming Championships as she introduced the star attraction, Ian Thorpe. Labor MP Katrine Hildyard introduced Thorpe as one of his former teammates: “Five time Olympic gold medallist Grant Hackett”. After an awkward silence, a correction was made. “Australia’s greatest Olympian Ian…
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Sweden’s swimming pool vigilantes accused of neo-Nazi links
The 24-year-old bottle blonde behind Sweden’s bikini-clad ‘grope-watch’ vigilantes has been accused of spurring fear and racism at the pool where she launched her campaign, with the manager saying staff have received a deluge of hate mail since she began last month. Meanwhile, the Telegraph has learnt that the co-founder of the group’s Stockholm spin-off…
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Australian man tosses pet snake during public swim
Visitors at an Australian creek witnessed a man tossing a snake back and watching it slither back as the two went for a swim. Musician Indy Davies of Brisbane shared video of the man and his pet carpet python to Instagram, as he repeatedly tossed the snake while drinking a beer at Tallebudgera Beach in Queensland. “There’s…
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‘Groping Guards’ patrol Swedish swimming pools to protect women against refugees
A group of female 20-somethings in Kalmar, Sweden, have taken it upon themselves to patrol the local swimming pools in efforts to protect women from sexual attacks by migrant men. “We are tired of men thinking they can come to Sweden and molest women when all we want is to be left in peace to…
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Man swims through pool of alligators on blow-up crocodile
What do you think is the best way to swim through a group of alligators? If you said there isn’t a ‘best way’ to do such a crazy thing then you’re right. But Charles Wieand doesn’t roll like that and he decided to take a dip with the creatures using an inflatable crocodile lilo. A…
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Live shark found in Florida condo swimming pool
Wildlife officials are trying to figure out exactly how a shark got into the swimming pool at a South Florida condo complex. The South Florida Sun Sentinel reports that Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officers responded to the Mariner’s Cay condominium in Hypoluxo last week after a woman found a live five-foot blacktip shark…
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Crazy Irish lads jump into raging sea during Storm Desmond
A Status Red weather warning remains in place as adverse weather conditions sweep across the country, with winds of 120km recorded in some areas. Two unnamed teenagers, believed to be locals, were captured on camera jumping into the raging waters at the famous Blackrock location on the Salthill promenade. See Independent
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Gunman gets 30 years for Bowie swim club murder
Twenty-year-old Deon Warren gets 30 years in prison for killing a 39-year-old father of two who was trying to break up a fist fight involving his son at the Bel Air Swim Club in Bowie in September of 2014. “He brought a gun to a fist fight that he had nothing to do with,” said…
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Man Discovered He Had Cancer Thanks To A Shark Collision
Eugene Finney went to the hospital after bumping into a shark off the coast of Huntington Beach, California. His doctors discovered he had a tumor.