Wednesday, July 19, 2006

A true life Daredevil?

A boy who became blind since the age of 3 due to retinal cancer, sees with sound. Ben Underwood who lost both his eyes to the disease, uses echolocation to see and is often seen skating down his neighbourhood at speed.
Here is this boy's fascinating story.

Tuesday, July 11, 2006

A man has spent 50 years living with poisonous snakes up a mango tree in India, after a row with is wife over a "tiny issue". His son has tried numerous times to talk him down, but ended up heartbroken and dejected. The man claims that after a few days of starting to live in a tree, he felt that "spiritualism had developed in his body".
Buzz and Buzzuh our field reporters have come in with in flight footage of this curious story...

Monday, July 10, 2006

A spicy Pot Noodle has induced a pregnant woman into labour. The spicy snack, a Pot Noodle Bombay Bad Boy is the spiciest in the Pot Noodle range and allows the consumer to make it as spicy as they want. The woman, who was worried that her pregnancy was taking to long was not expecting the effect from the snack. (click here for the story)

As usual The Spot was on the spot.

Sunday, July 09, 2006

There is a serious message in this video even thought it is not visible at first. The added bonus is for those who like Ken Ishii's tunes. Probably one of the best videos I have seen online.(click here)

The Ed.

Saturday, July 08, 2006

Friday, July 07, 2006

Yup, you never know what you may find down there when you do your business, so better have a good check, if necessary check the water, check water temperature (at least for a small number of us ;)) ) maybe have a taster, and when everything is OK, its all systems go..... ;-D ( click here )
Not having lunch? Not dining? Not even snacking? Sitting down? Good, good.. (Take a deep breath...) Indian man holds part of his skull in his hands after suffering severe burns. The electrician suffered a discharge while repairing a high voltage cable...(click here for the article)
A word of caution, the article has a picture.

Thursday, July 06, 2006

Ever asked yourself if we are really alone in the Universe? Watch this video from Space.com entitled "Figure the Odds of ET".

At "The Spot" we have not only figured out the odds but came up with the total for the whole equation. They say they are friendly, but we had our reservations on if we should shake hands or not....

Wednesday, July 05, 2006

GOODNESS GRACIOUS,GREAT BALLS OF....CONCRETE?????

German Police are hunting the perpetrators of a prankster who has been filing footballs full of concrete and leaving signs saying "Can you kick it?", around Berlin. We thought this article by itself was so, but soooooo funny that we spared the illustration :-D ..... (article here)
Volkswagen has created a self-driven Golf GTI, codenamed GTI 53 plus 1, after 60s automotive VW Beetle love icon Herbie (click here for the article). The new car, has self driven at speeds up to 150mph (that's right, not a typo). The news of such breakthrough was not well received on the other side of the Atlantic though (see below).

Monday, July 03, 2006

Being a big fan of drifting ( as in cars, not as in lost at sea in a raft), and being a person pro free enterprise and free thinking I thought I should post this drifiting video in "The Spot"...enjoy...

The Editor