
Weird but true
Happy Birthday Toledo, Ohio.
“T Town” marked its 175th birthday, but no one seemed to care.
No celebrations were planned for the city on the shores of Lake Erie, and Mayor Mike Bell blamed the economy for keeping any birthday bash from getting off the ground.
“Until we can get our city back to where we should be, I don’t think we should be doing any major celebration right now,” he told the Toledo Blade.
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You’d think a light bulb would go off for this guy.
A daredevil sword swallower who ripped his esophagus trying to gulp down a lit neon tube has returned to performing.
Hannibul Hellmurto, a one-time “Britain’s Got Talent” contestant, was in intensive care for weeks.
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A Swedish train passenger was sentenced to prison for getting a buzz on and taking his clothes off.
The unidentified man was traveling from Gothenburg to Orebro when he got high on pot, took off his clothes and walked through the train asking other passengers to have sex with him.
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This car has a mind of its own.
The vehicle — whose owner forgot to engage the parking brake in Stirling, Australia — rolled through a parking lot, across a road and down a driveway where it slid into a garage.
The owner reported the vehicle stolen. It was found 17 days later when the garage owner returned from a trip and found it.
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He really knows how to bug people.
A British man gets his buzz on by filming himself eating all kinds of curious cuisine, from a live scorpion’s head to a tarantula to nearly two dozen locusts.
Louis Cole, of Roehampton in South West London, told Britain’s Sun newspaper that he just wants to “live life to the fullest and be free.”


