When you mock opponents with electrocution, perhaps “rooting interest” has gone too far.
A Buffalo sports bar has set up a mock electric chair so fans can torment a dummy dressed in rival teams’ jerseys.
Every time the NHL Sabres, NFL Bills or minor league baseball Bisons score, the switch is flipped.
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It was the type of rubber-necking you’d least expect.
Motorists in Appling, Ga., were stunned to see an emu running along the interstate.
Animal-control officials were summoned to corral the wayward flightless bird and had to tackle the giant beast.
“It kicked so hard in the truck that the latch on the truck broke,” said Pam Tucker of the Columbia County Emergency Services Department.
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Apparently the Immaculate Conception wasn’t reserved just for the baby Jesus.
Two Komodo dragons were born at a zoo in Wichita, Kan., without the fertilization of a male.
Seems the giant reptiles are capable of “parthenogenesis” – asexual reproduction involving unfertilized eggs – but it’s very rare.
“We never had a male dragon at the zoo,” said Don Boyer, curator of reptiles and amphibians.
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If you thought turtles were slow, think again.
Using a transmitter, scientists were able to track a leatherback turtle as it swam from Indonesia to Oregon in just 647 days.
“This is an animal perfectly suited for doing this kind of journey,” said Scott Benson of the US National Marine Fisheries Service.
After completing the 12,774-mile journey, the turtle continued on to Hawaii before the transmitter battery gave out.
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Cops in Brisbane, Australia, declared a state of emergency when a drunk threatened to blow up half the city with what turned out to be his TV remote control.
Geoffrey Fryatt, 57, was busted by paramilitary police after threatening to detonate a store of chemicals with the remote.
He was sentenced to a year’s probation.