Funny Cool Stuff

I’ve heard of eagles swooping down to grab a little pup but this is perhaps more bizarre. Seriously, you don’t wanna take your little doggie for a walk in his park.

Story goes that in the sleepy village of Lazo, Russia, a stray dog was barking at a group of black squirrels lurking among the trees. Dogs will bark at anything; firecrackers, leaves rustling in the wind or even at its own tail. So nothing weird there… until the bunch of furry rodents made a leap for the poor dog and started to gut the fellow. Ouch! Night of Flesh-Eating Squirrels, anyone?

Sounds like pretty hard-core squirrels. Was it the rodent equivalent of Robert DeNiro’s “Are you talking to me?”

According to witnesses, when they saw the men, they scattered in different directions, taking pieces of their kill away with them.

Well, baffled experts wonder if a pine corn shortage is to blame. How do you jump from pine to dog meat? Why not go through the customary scavenging dust bins and begging with puppy eyes routine first?

Did I mention that the ravaging feast lasted almost a minute? Creepy!

Hmm …. Is there a nuke dump site in that area?

For most people living in a democratic country, it’s not cool when the government makes unreasonable laws and tries to control the lives of ordinary citizens too much. But it sure can be funny sometimes.

In the small village of Sarpourenx in southwest France, the people are facing a morbid problem. Their cemetery is overcrowded, and they have no space left to bury their dead. Gerard Lalanne, the village’s wise 70-year-old mayor, quickly came up with a solution: he issued an ordinance banning all residents from dying.

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Always, eager for a good opportunity to laugh, Google launched a number of April Fool’s Day jokes on April 1st this year. My personal favorite was a stunt they pulled at Google.com.au (Australia) offering a new feature titled gDay™ with MATE™, allowing you to search into the future.

gDay wasn’t the only prank Google pulled, their largest was a collaboration with Virgin Media, titled Virgle, looking for pioneers for their expedition to colonize Mars. With a company as big and innovative as Google this sort of endeavor is semi believable and probably threw quite a few people for a loop.

Google also added a couple other features worthy of a laugh, Gmail Custom Time, allowing users to send messages back in time, and Google Wake-up Kit, complete with a bucket for cold water and a bed flipper.

Go to this page for a complete list of International Google Hoaxes.

When some couples break up they take each other to court over custody of the kids or the house, or to sue for alimony. But a Malaysian woman has taken her court battle to new extremes, suing her husband for approximately the equivalent of $882,000 (US Dollar) for the loss of her virginity!

After her husband persuaded her to have sex with him by promising to marry her, his family refused to acknowledge the union that took place a few months later. She says she was promised a happy marriage and received only humiliation at the hands of her husband and in-laws instead. Let this be a lesson to the bad husbands of the world – if you screw your wife over, she will do the same to you!

Still remember our funeral story a few days ago? Today, we have another funeral related story. Or at least a bizarre tale involving a funeral home.

Imagine if you lived next to a funeral home. Wouldn’t your tummy do flip flops if you awoke in the wee hours of the morning and heard bumpity-scratchy noises from next door?

Lucky for the good neighbors of Crespo Funeral home in Spain, the clawing noises turned out to be a pesky burglar. Trying to pry open the doors of the funeral home. Why? I mean, seriously why? What could you possibly want to steal from that place?

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What do you do if you want a pet to play with but don’t have the time or space to keep one of your own? Well if you happen to live in (or are visiting) Tokyo, Japan, you can head over to the Nekobukuro and rent one. For 600 yen (or about $5.84) you can play in a cat-centric wonderland where felines let you pet them, play with them, and snap pictures of them as they lounge about.

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Some philosophers say that spirituality is the thing that sets us humans apart from ordinary animals. That sounds quite reasonable. Among all the species on this planet, only human beings have the capability to understand religion and follow religious rituals, right?

Well, maybe not.

In a Zen Buddhist temple in Okinawa, Japan, a resident little dog named Conan has learned to clasp his paws together and pray in front of the altar alongside his human masters. The story of the praying dog has become a media sensation in Japan, and the temple has seen a dramatic increase in the number of curious visitors.

Maybe we shouldn’t be surprised about dogs learning how to pray. After all, isn’t “beg” one of the most popular tricks that dog owners teach their pets? And we can say that praying is basically begging from the God, right? Plus, it’s possible that dogs feel a special connection with the divine because “god” is “dog” spelled backwards.

Hmm, I wonder if that’s where the term “religious dogma” comes from.

When considering a hotel room when you are traveling or on Holiday, sometimes all you need is a little space. Nothing fancy, just enough room to kick your shoes off, get some sleep and then be on the road again. The hair dryer, coffee pot, couch or a phone in the bathroom is completely unnecessary. Heck, you don’t even need any floor space. Enter, the Capsule Hotel.

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