Category: WTF
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Swimmer gets 3 years jail for firebombing sport director’s house
15 May 2014 in Ski, Norway, a 25-year-old former swimmer was sentenced to three years in jail for firebombing sport director Frank Pedersen’s residence back in January 2011, when Pedersen, his wife, three daughters (11, 13 and 17) and two other youngsters were sleeping inside. See øb.no via simma.nu/no
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Watch This Guy Swim And Feed And Even Mouth-Feed Gators
See Wide Open Spaces Uploaded to Facebook by a person who was on the tour, this video shows the bravery (or insanity) of this gentleman who, for some reason, seems to look at ease with this gigantic predatory reptiles. We’d never make assumptions about someone’s mental capacity, but we’d also never get into the water…
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Getting fish drunk doubles its swim-speed
Read The Times Of India A single zebrafish, exposed to alcohol, not only doubles its swim-speed among its “sober” peers, but also increases the speed of the whole group, a new study has found. New findings by researchers at the New York University Polytechnic School of Engineering are helping to unravel the complex interplay between…
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Dad charged with abuse after throwing toddler into pool to teach her a lesson
Read for instance news.com.au A father has been charged with child abuse after he chucked his two-year-old daughter into a swimming pool to teach her a lesson. Corey McCarthy’s actions were picked by a surveillance camera at the pool inPhoenix, Arizona, reported AZFamily.com. McCarthy reportedly told police that he threw his daughter Mia into the pool…
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Rio 2016 so far behind schedule IOC ‘make secret plea’ to reuse London
Read The Telegraph. And jeez. So worried are Olympic organisers by how far behind schedule the 2016 Rio Games has fallen, London has reportedly been asked, in secret, if it could host the event at the last minute. According to the London Evening Standard, an informal approach has been made by IOC chiefs to ascertain whether London’s…
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Pier Plunging craze now sweeping Norway too
Read The Local A new cold-water bathing craze has spread so fast on Norway’s social media since it was imported from the Faroe Islands a week ago, that the man who started it now fears no one in the entire country will escape. The ‘Jump in the Sea Challenge’ sees victims dared to throw themselves…
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Until Fairly Recently, The YMCA Actually Required Swimmers To Be Nude
Read Vocativ Last week, I was eating lunch with a friend and her dad in Manhattan on 23rd Street, directly across from what used to be the McBurney YMCA, when my friend’s dad had a sudden recollection. Apparently, in 1968, as part of a freshman requirement for the city college he attended, all male students…
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IOC Vice President: Rio 2016 Preparations ‘The Worst I Have Experienced’, And There’s No Plan B
See The Australian Olympic Committee The AOC President and IOC Vice President, John Coates, has described Rio’s preparations for the 2016 Olympics as “the worst I have experienced†and “worse than Athens†(2004). #185023593 / gettyimages.com http://youtu.be/95_u72XT0Mo