Category: WTF
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South Florida man drives car through fence, into pool
See WPTV Taking an evening dip in the swimming pool can be a relaxing summertime Florida experience, but not when you take the car with you.
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Underwater Music Concert Attracts Beluga Whales
See KEYC TV Recently, A Winnipeg couple put a boat on the Churchill River with a home-made underwater sound system and began performing for the whales. The couple says their hope is to bring art to the non-human world. At one time, they counted a total of 10 whales in their audience. KEYC – Mankato…
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Business man drowns when held underwater during course to ‘overcome his fear’
Read Shanghaiist Three men have been arrested after a company executive drowned in Guangzhou during an exercise in which he was repeatedly held underwater to help ‘overcome his fear’. The man, surnamed Huang, had paid 30,000 yuan for the training course. The three organisers have been held by police for accidentally causing the death of…
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54-year-old man distracted by nude female swimmer while his house is robbed
Read cnhi news service via Opposing Views An unidentified 54-year-old man in Crossville, Tennessee was robbed while he was distracted by a woman swimming nude in his backyard pool on Saturday. According to CNHI News, a woman and a man approached the victim’s home, but the woman sent her male accomplice away to get some cigarettes.…
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Largest algae bloom ever recorded in China turnes the Yellow Sea green
See for instance The Guardian The largest algal bloom ever recorded in China has turned the Yellow Sea green and may be related to pollution from agriculture and industry. Officials in the city of Qingdao had used bulldozers to remove 7,335 tonnes of the growth from beaches according to the Xinhua news agency. The phenomenon…
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Iranian swimmer Elham Asghari: ‘My 20km record has been held hostage’
Read The Guardian In an exclusive interview, Asghari explains why she is battling Iranian authorities who denied her a record over ‘un-Islamic attire’
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Iranians voice support for record-breaking female swimmer
See the Belfast Telegraph Elham Asghari, an Iranian female swimmer, claimed that she set a new breaststroke record in the Caspian Sea in June, 2013. However, her new record is not being recognized by Iranian authorities on account of her attire. Thousands of Iranians have voiced their support for Ashgari via Facebook.
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California man spends 7 hours in ocean to avoid drug arrest
Read Fox News and see The Huffington Post A California man wanted on a felony drug warrant surrendered to authorities Monday after spending more than seven hours swimming in the ocean off the coast of San Diego to evade arrest. Fox 5 reports 46-year-old John Michael White was approached by police officers Sunday night while…
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Slow Motion Video of an AK-47 Fired Underwater
Destin of Smarter Every Day firing an AK-47 over- and underwater, while filming it with a high-speed Phantom Miro 320S. Interesting science going on here. Also, GoPros can take pretty much anything. Via Laughing Squid